Peregrinations of the Greenland Ice Sheet divide in the last glacial cycle: Implications for central Greenland ice cores

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-90

  Marshall, Shawn J ^a   Cuffey, Kurt M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GISP2; Greenland ice sheet; GRIP; Ice movement; Paleoclimatology; Summit Greenland

Indexed keywords

GRIP; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033920108     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00108-4     Document Type: Article

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