Global ice-volume fluctuations, North Atlantic ice-rafting events, and deep-ocean circulation changes between 130 and 70 ka

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 795-798

  Chapman, Mark R ^a   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINTEGRATION; GLACIERS; SEA ICE;

CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; ICE-RAFTING EVENTS; ICEBERG DISCHARGES; LAST INTERGLACIAL; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

ICE RAFTING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUATERNARY; VOLUME;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033385576     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0795:GIVFNA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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