Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6677, 1998, Pages 699-702

  Raymo, M E ^a   Ganley, K ^a   Carter, S ^a   Oppo, D W ^b   McManus, J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

CLIMATE INSTABILITY; GLACIAL CYCLE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032537123     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33658     Document Type: Article

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