Rapid changes in the mechanism of ocean convection during the last glacial period

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6752, 1999, Pages 458-461

  Dokken, Trond M ^a,b   Jansen, Eystein ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; FRESH WATER; ICE; OXYGEN 18; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

LAST GLACIAL; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PALEOCLIMATE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0033619222     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46753     Document Type: Article

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