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Citation Menounos, B, Clague, JJ, Gilbert, R and Slaymaker, O. 2005. Environmental reconstruction from a varve network in the southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. The Holocene 15:1163-1171.
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URL http://hol.sagepub.com/content/15/8/1163.short
Abstract/Description or Keywords Cores of annually laminated sediments (varves) from five lakes in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, document clastic sediment response to climate and geomorphic change over the past 120 years. Interannual varve thickness correlates with annual flood magnitude. Interdecadal trends in varve thickness are influenced by other environmental factors such as glacier recession. Despite major differences in the lakes and their contributing watersheds, substantial concordance is observed among the records. A pronounced change in the nature of lake sedimentation, accompanied by higher interannual variability, occurred in 1980. The change coincides with an increase in the magnitude of autumn flooding and major re-organization of the North Pacific climate system. These results highlight new directions for palaeoenvironmental research using varved sediment records, specifically to study the magnitude and spatial extent of past hydro-climatic events.
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