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Climatic and environmental events over the Last Termination, as recorded in The Netherlands: a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

W.Z. Hoek ,
S.J.P. Bohncke  and
The Netherlands Centre for Geo-ecological Research (ICG)
W.Z. Hoek
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands; e-mail:W.Hoek@geog.uu.nl
S.J.P. Bohncke
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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The Last Termination, or Weichselian Lateglacial (ca 15–10 ka cal. BP), is a time period with rapid changes in climate and environment. The oxygen-isotope records of the Greenland ice-cores are regarded as the most complete climate proxy for the North Atlantic region. In The Netherlands several other proxies have been investigated and dated in great detail over the last few decades. However, changes registered in the different records are not by definition causally related to climate changes. Comparison of the different records on a common time-scale permits evaluation of the interrelationships and correlations to the Greenland ice-cores. Some events are the result of the complex interplay of different environmental variables and have no causal relationship with climate changes at all. By comparing the different records on a common time-scale and examining spatial patterns, the links between the proxies become evident.

Keywords

LateglacialpalaeoclimategeomorphologyvegetationThe Netherlands
Type
Special section: PAGES Symposium, Amsterdam, 3 November 2000
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 123 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2002

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