Climatic instability, ice sheets and ocean dynamics at high northern latitudes during the last glacial period (58-10 KA BP)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-80

  Rasmussen, Tine L ^a   Van Weering, Tjeerd C E ^b   Labeyrie, Laurent ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC, FAEROE MARGIN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0030621286     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(96)00045-5     Document Type: Article

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