Rapid climate change in the North Atlantic during the Younger Dryas recorded by deep-sea corals

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6627, 1997, Pages 818-820

  Smith, Jodie E ^a   Risk, Michael J ^a   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a   McConnaughey, Ted A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CORAL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL DATING; DEEP-SEA; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS; PALAEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0030620499     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386818a0     Document Type: Article

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