Continuous dust concentration profile of pre-Holocene ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice core: Dust stadials, interstadials, and the Eemian

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue C12, 1997, Pages 26641-26648

  Ram, Michael ^a   Koenig, Gerson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DUST PROFILE; EEMIAN; GISP2; GLACIATION;

EID: 0031463113     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC03548     Document Type: Article

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