Weaker Gulf Stream in the Florida straits during the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6762, 1999, Pages 644-648

  Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^a   Curry, William B ^b   Slowey, Niall ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; DENSITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENTHOS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033540043     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45204     Document Type: Article

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