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1750 years of large rainfall events inferred from particle size at East Lake, Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Canada

scholarly article

A 1,000-year, annually-resolved record of hurricane activity from Boston, Massachusetts

scholarly article

A Holocene tephra record from the Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway

A framework for 210Pb model selection and its application to 37 cores from Eastern Canada to identify the dynamics and drivers of lake sedimentation rates

scholarly article

A record of climate over the last millennium based on varved lake sediments from the Canadian High Arctic

article

Advances in varved sediment studies help paleoclimate reconstructions

article by Pierre Francus & Timo Saarinen published 1999 in Eos

An Extreme Sediment Transfer Event in a Canadian High Arctic Stream

article

An algorithm to aid varve counting and measurement from thin-sections

scholarly article

An automated system for the statistical analysis of sediment texture and structure at the micro scale

An image-analysis technique to measure grain-size variation in thin sections of soft clastic sediments

scientific article

Annually resolved Atlantic sea surface temperature variability over the past 2,900 y

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Arctic hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years: current understanding and research challenges

article

Authigenic, detrital and diagenetic minerals in the Laguna Potrok Aike sediment sequence

scholarly article

Changes in erosion patterns during the Holocene in a currently treeless subalpine catchment inferred from lake sediment geochemistry (Lake Anterne, 2063 m a.s.l., NW French Alps): The role of climate and human activities

article

Chapter Two Continuous Physical Properties of Cored Marine Sediments

Characteristics of sedimentary varve chronologies – A review

article

Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years.

scientific article

Climatic influence of the latest Antarctic isotope maximum of the last glacial period (AIM4) on Southern Patagonia

scientific article published in 2017

Comparing X-ray densitometry and BSE-image analysis of thin section in varved sediments

Correction to “Sedimentology and geochemistry of thermokarst ponds in discontinuous permafrost, subarctic Quebec, Canada”

scholarly article

Deriving paleo-perspectives on polar systems: Continued results from the 2012 Sawtooth Lake (Ellesmere Island) and 2015 Petermann (North Greenland) Expeditions

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Destructive and non-destructive density determination: method comparison and evaluation from the Laguna Potrok Aike sedimentary record

scholarly article

Environment and climate of the last 51,000 years – new insights from the Potrok Aike maar lake Sediment Archive Drilling prOject (PASADO)

article

Estimation of grain size variability with micro X-ray fluorescence in laminated lacustrine sediments, Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic

scholarly article

Evidence for a warmer period during the 12th and 13th centuries AD from chironomid assemblages in Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada

article

Five thousand years of sediment transfer in a high arctic watershed recorded in annually laminated sediments from Lower Murray Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

article

Frequency and intensity of high-altitude floods over the last 3.5 ka in northwestern French Alps (Lake Anterne)

article

Global spread of hypoxia in freshwater ecosystems during the last three centuries is caused by rising local human pressure

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

High-altitude varve records of abrupt environmental changes and mining activity over the last 4000 years in the Western French Alps (Lake Bramant, Grandes Rousses Massif)

article

High-resolution paleomagnetic secular variations and relative paleointensity since the Late Pleistocene in southern South America

scholarly article

Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland

scholarly article

Holocene climate inferred from biological (Diptera: Chironomidae) analyses in a Southampton Island (Nunavut, Canada) lake

article

Holocene dynamics of the Arctic's largest ice shelf

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2011)

Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Imaging air volume fraction in sea ice using non-destructive X-ray tomography

scientific article

Imaging air volume fraction in sea ice using non-destructive X-ray tomography

Influence of North Pacific decadal variability on the western Canadian Arctic over the past 700 years

article

Influence of Seasonal Post‐Depositional Processes on the Remanent Magnetization in Varved Sediments From Glacial Lake Ojibway (Canada)

scientific article published in March 2023

Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate of the Past 2000 Years: Global and Regional Syntheses

article

Introduction to the special issue “Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses”

article

Late Glacial and Early Holocene cyclic changes in paleowind conditions and lake levels inferred from diatom assemblage shifts in Laguna Potrok Aike sediments (southern Patagonia, Argentina)

article

Late-Quaternary glacial to postglacial sedimentation in three adjacent fjord-lakes of the Québec North Shore (eastern Canadian Shield)

scholarly article

Limnological and sedimentary processes at Sawtooth Lake, Canadian High Arctic, and their influence on varve formation

scholarly article

Limnology, sedimentology, and hydrology of a jökulhlaup into a meromictic High Arctic lake

article

Long-term environmental changes in the Canadian boreal zone: Synthesizing temporal trends from lake sediment archives to inform future sustainability

scientific article published in 2023

Microfacies and microstructures of subglacial and deglacial sediments from the Pingualuit Crater Lake (Ungava Peninsula, Canada)

article

Microsedimentological characterization using image analysis and μ-XRF as indicators of sedimentary processes and climate changes during Lateglacial at Laguna Potrok Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina

scholarly article

Mid to Late Holocene hydroclimatic and geochemical records from the varved sediments of East Lake, Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic

article

Morphological expression of bedforms formed by supercritical sediment density flows on four fjord-lake deltas of the south-eastern Canadian Shield (Eastern Canada)

article

New insight into Saanich Inlet varved sediments (British Columbia, Canada) from micro-scale analysis of sedimentary facies and micro-XRF core scanning analyses

article

New insights into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments

article

Palaeolimnological conditions inferred from fossil diatom assemblages and derivative spectral properties of sediments in thermokarst ponds of subarctic Quebec, Canada

article

Postglacial environmental succession of Nettilling Lake (Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic) inferred from biogeochemical and microfossil proxies

article

Practical guidelines and recent advances in the Itrax XRF core-scanning procedure

scholarly article

Recent occurrence of large jökulhlaups at Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

scholarly article

Reconstructing past hydrology of eastern Canadian boreal catchments using clastic varved sediments and hydro-climatic modelling: 160 years of fluvial inflows

scientific article published in 2021

Reply to Li et al.: Human societies began to play a significant role in global sediment transfer 4,000 years ago

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Rock-magnetic proxies of wind intensity and dust since 51,200 cal BP from lacustrine sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southeastern Patagonia

scholarly article

Rock-magnetic signature of precipitation and extreme runoff events in south-eastern Patagonia since 51,200 cal BP from the sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike

scholarly article

Sedimentology and geochemistry of thermokarst ponds in discontinuous permafrost, subarctic Quebec, Canada

scholarly article

Sedimentology, clay mineralogy and grain-size as indicators of 65 ka of climate change from El’gygytgyn Crater Lake, Northeastern Siberia

scholarly article

Signal-to-noise ratios, instrument parameters and repeatability of Itrax XRF core scan measurements of floodplain sediments

scholarly article

Spatio-temporal variability of Arctic summer temperatures over the past 2 millennia

article

Spatio-temporal variability of Arctic summer temperatures over the past two millennia: an overview of the last major climate anomalies

article

Spectrophotometer analysis of Holocene sediments from an anoxic fjord: Saanich Inlet, British Columbia, Canada

article

Sub-sampling unconsolidated sediments: A solution for the preparation of undistrubed thin-sections from clay-rich sediments

scholarly article

Subarctic Thermokarst Ponds: Investigating Recent Landscape Evolution and Sediment Dynamics in Thawed Permafrost of Northern Québec (Canada)

article

Subfossil Simuliidae track past river flow into an industrially contaminated lake

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Temperature or precipitation: which parameter is recorded in varved sediments from the Canadian High Arctic?

article

The Holocene History of Nares Strait: Transition from Glacial Bay to Arctic-Atlantic Throughflow

scientific article published in 2011

The Laguna Potrok Aike Scinetific Drilling Project PASADO (ICDP Expedition 5022)

article published in 2009

The rise of varves

scholarly article published in 2013

Urban point sources of nutrients were the leading cause for the historical spread of hypoxia across European lakes

scientific article

Varved sediments of Lake Yoa (Ounianga Kebir, Chad) reveal progressive drying of the Sahara during the last 6100 years

article

Varves in lake sediments – a review

article

Varves in marine sediments: A review

article

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