An event stratigraphy for the last termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice-core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 283-292

  Björck, Svante ^a   Walker, Michael J C ^b   Cwynar, Les C ^c   Johnsen, Sigfus ^d   Knudsen, Karen Luise ^e   Lowe, J John ^f   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; ICE CORE; LAST DEGLACIATION; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN, (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 0031790458     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199807/08)13:4<283::AID-JQS386>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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