Subtropical North Atlantic temperatures 60,000 to 30,000 years ago

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5440, 1999, Pages 756-760

  Sachs, Julian P ^a,b   Lehman, Scott J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

MARINE SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033595702     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5440.756     Document Type: Article

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