Rapid climatic shifts of the northern Norwegian Sea during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Boreas

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-28

  Hald, Morten ^a   Aspeli, Roald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA;

BOTTOM WATER CONDITIONS; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; OCEAN COOLING; PALAEOCLIMATE; WARMING;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0031453911     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1997.tb00648.x     Document Type: Article

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