The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition as documented in the deep South Atlantic Ocean: Initiation, interim state and terminal event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 539-549

  Schmieder, Frank ^a   Von Dobeneck, Tilo ^a   Bleil, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glacial extent; Global change; Magnetic susceptibility; Pleistocene; South Atlantic; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033916093     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00143-6     Document Type: Article

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