Assessing Arctica islandica as a proxy for Scottish marine climate change

• Main Author: Stott, Keziah J.
• Other Authors: Austin, W. E. N. (William E. N.), Wilson, Rob, Inall, Mark E., Sayer, M. D. J. (Martin D. J.), Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Millennium: European Climate of the Last Millennium. EU 6th Framework Integrated Project, University of St Andrews
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of St Andrews 2014
• Subjects: Arctica islandica; Sclerochronology; NW Scotland; Climate change; Proxy; Palaeoclimate; Oxygen isotopes; Carbon isotopes; QC884.2C5S8; Sclerochronology > Scotland; Paleoclimatology > Scotland; Ocean quahog > Scotland; Oxygen > Isotopes; Carbon > Isotopes; Bomb Peak; Ocean quahog
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4817; https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-4817

This thesis investigates the potential of the bivalve Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767) from fjordic sites in NW Scotland for reconstructing past marine environmental /climatic variability. Using dendrochronological and sclerochronological techniques, six master chronologies were created which when...