Thermohaline instability in the North Atlantic during melt water events: Stable isotope and ice-rafted detritus records from core SO75-26KL, Portuguese margin

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 696-710

  Zahn, Rainer ^a   Schönfeld, Joachim ^a   Kudrass, Hermann Rudolf ^b   Park, Myong Ho ^a   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^c   Grootes, Pieter ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELT WATER; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031413050     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97PA00581     Document Type: Article

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