North Atlantic Ice Sheet Fluctuations 10,000-70,000 Yr Ago as Inferred from Deposits on the Reykjanes Ridge, Southeast of Greenland

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-182

  Lackschewitz, Klas S ^a,b   Baumann, Karl Heinz ^c   Gehrke, Bettina ^d   Wallrabe Adams, Hans Joachim ^b   Thiede, Jörn ^b,e   Bonani, Georges ^f   Endler, Rudolf ^g   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^a   Heinemeier, Jan ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d Alfred Wegener Institute ^*  (Germany)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); ATLANTIC, REYKJANES RIDGE;

EID: 0031848483     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1948     Document Type: Article

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