Asynchronous neoglaciation and Holocene climatic change reconstructed from Norwegian glaciolacustrine sedimentary sequences
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Glacial lake sedimentary sequences are used to complete a Holocene record of climate variation and glaciers in southern Norway. The results indicate that small, low-altitude glaciers, exhibiting less frequent growth episodes than those in higher altitudes, were formed during the late Holocene. Different climate responses of glaciers account for this asynchronous pattern, the basis for a reconstruction of middle to late Holocene climatic record. The data also supports the absence of glaciers in the area during the early Holocene, underlining the glacial vulnerability to global warming.
Publication Name: Geology
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0091-7613
Year: 1992
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Paleoclimatic implications of Holocene lake-level fluctuations, Owasco Lake, New York: comment
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Dwyer and his associates assert that the lake-level curve at one site in Lake Owasco represents the water level for the entire lake. This assumption is wrong because changes in water-balance can only be detected by comparing lake-level curves at different sites. A single lake-level curve does not represent changes in basin hydrology. Lake-level curves are used to study past climates and hydrology using the assumption that the water level on a study site depends only on the water balance of the lake basin.
Publication Name: Geology
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0091-7613
Year: 1997
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Greg Balco and his associates claim that Holocene lake-level changes in Owasco Lake were controlled by glacial isostatic rebound rather than by climate changes. Geological data from the Finger Lakes region point to a number of small lake-level fluctuations in the Holocene period. These fluctuations have been too many, too synchronous and too extended in time to be influenced mainly by glacial isostatic rebound as what Greg Balco and his associates assert.
Publication Name: Geology
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0091-7613
Year: 1997
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