Mid- to late Pleistocene ice drift in the western Arctic Ocean: Evidence for a different circulation in the past

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5322, 1997, Pages 74-78

  Bischof, Jens F ^a   Darby, Dennis A ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

BEAUFORT GYRE CIRCULATION; DEGLACIATION; ICE DRIFT; ICEBERG; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA ICE;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER FLOW;

ARTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0030779096     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5322.74     Document Type: Article

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39. Supported by NSF grants OPP-9321487 and OPP-9123027 and Office of Naval Research grant N00014-95-1-1200.