Link between the North and South Atlantic during the Heinrich events of the last glacial period

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 909-919

  Vidal, L ^a   Schneider, R R ^a   Marchal, O ^b   Bickert, T ^a   Stocker, T F ^b   Wefer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; HEINRICH EVENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033395268     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050321     Document Type: Article

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