Climate during glaciation and deglaciation identified through chemical tracers in ice-cores

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1319-1322

  Marsh, Nigel D ^a   Ditlevsen, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL; VECTOR SPACES; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CORRELATION METHODS; SEA ICE;

BASE VECTORS; CHEMICAL SPECIES; CHEMICAL TRACERS; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DEGLACIATIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHEMICAL TRACERS; DEGLACIATION; GLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

CHEMICAL TRACER; DEGLACIATION; GISP2; GLACIATION; PALAEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0031160941     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00706     Document Type: Article

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