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This project of collaborative research (project IIa of the NERC TIGGER programme-Terrestrial Initiative in Global Geological Environmental Research) into the climatic history of the late Holocene used a variety of techniques, both tested and experimental, on carefully chosen sites in lowland and upland environments, to derive high quality proxy-records of climatic change over the last 2000 years. The methodology involved the use of high-resolution analyses (diatoms, cladocera, chironomids, ostracods, magnetics, pollen, macrofossils, humification. lipid biomarkers and stable-isotopes) of the stratigraphy of well-dared (AMS and conventional C-14, Pb-210, pollen, tephra, SCP spheroidal carbonaceous particles) cores from a remote montane lake and lowland lakes, and from a montane blanket and a lowland raised bog. linked to historical records of climate change. This paper reviews some of the major results obtained, both in the magnitude, synchroneity and periodicity of change, especially during the Little Ice Age. and in the evaluation of the various techniques used. The fact that such techniques can be validated and calibrated against a known climatic signal in the recent past, allows for better interpretation of changes in the more distant past.
Author(s): Barber KE, Battarbee RW, Brooks SJ, Eglinton G, Haworth EY, Oldfield F, Stevenson AC, Thompson R, Appleby PG, Austin WEN, Cameron NG, Ficken KJ, Golding P, Harkness DD, Holmes JA, Hutchinson R, Lishman JP, Maddy D, Pinder LCV, Rose NL, Stoneman RE
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
Year: 1999
Volume: 156
Issue: 2
Pages: 369-380
Print publication date: 01/03/1999
ISSN (print): 0016-7649
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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.156.2.0369
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.2.0369
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