Latest pleistocene ice-rafting events on the Scotian margin (Eastern Canada) and their relationship to Heinrich events

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-214

  Piper, David J W ^a   Skene, Kenneth I ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENT; ICE RAFTING; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031707552     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97PA03641     Document Type: Article

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