A reexamination of northeast Atlantic sea surface temperature and salinity over the last 16 kyr

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 327-342

  Sikes, Elisabeth L ^a,b   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALAEOSALINITY; PALAEOTEMPERATURE; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; IRELAND; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC, FENI DRIFT;

EID: 0029836606     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95PA03697     Document Type: Article

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