Norwegian Sea overflow variability and NE Atlantic surface hydrography during the past 150,000 years

Marine Geology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 75-99

  Kuijpers, A ^a   Troelstra, S R ^b   Wisse, M ^b   Nielsen, S Heier ^c   Van Weering, T C E ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Late Quaternary paleoceanography; NE Atlantic; North Atlantic Deep Water; Norwegian Sea overflow

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032212688     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00065-6     Document Type: Article

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