Palaeolimnological evidence for marked Holocene environmental changes on Signy Island, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Jones, VJ, Hodgson, DA, Chepstow-Lusty, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ARNOLD, HODDER HEADLINE PLC 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Signy Island; Holocene; climate change; palaeolimnology; palaeoclimate; QUATERNARY GLACIAL HISTORY; SOUTH-SHETLAND-ISLANDS; KING-GEORGE-ISLAND; JAMES-ROSS-ISLAND; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; LAKE-SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC-CHANGE; PENINSULA; SEA; LEVEL; Heywood; King George Island; Ross Island; South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/97122/

Lake-sediment cores from Heywood and Sombre Lakes on Signy Island (South Orkney Islands), Antarctica, have yielded a conformable radiacarbon chronology far the Holocene and a high-resolution record of environmental change. The lakes share a common climate and geology but have distinct catchments. Th...