Millennial-scale climatic oscillations during the last interglaciation in central China

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 603-606

  An, Zhisheng ^a   Porter, Stephen C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ASIAN WINTER MONSOONS; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ICE RAFTED DETRITUS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; SEDIMENT SAMPLES;

DUST;

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; FORAMINIFERA; NORTH ATLANTIC POLAR WATER; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 0031404319     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0603:MSCODT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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