Low-latitude forcing of meridional temperature and salinity gradients in the subpolar North Atlantic and the growth of glacial ice sheets

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 875-878

  Chapman, Mark R ^a   Maslin, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HEAT STORAGE; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE FORCING; CURRENT; ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033450851     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0875:LLFOMT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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