Elevated marine terraces from Eleuthera (Bahamas) and Bermuda: Sedimentological, petrographic and geochronological evidence for important deglaciation events during the middle Pleistocene

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-58

  Kindler, Pascal ^a   Hearty, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Bermuda; Eustacy; Geochronology; Ice caps; Marine terraces; Middle Pleistocene; Sedimentary petrography; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RACEMIZATION; TERRACE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EID: 0034057981     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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