Timescales for dust variability in the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) ice core in the last 100,000 years

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D24, 1999, Pages 31043-31052

  Fuhrer, Katrin ^a,d   Wolff, Eric W ^b   Johnsen, Sigfus J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Ionworks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DUST; GRIP; ICE CORE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 0033611334     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD900929     Document Type: Article

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