Variations of Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon explicable without ocean circulation changes

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6772, 2000, Pages 877-880

  Goslar, Tomasz ^a   Arnold, Maurice ^b   Tisnerat Laborde, Nadine ^b   Czernik, Justyna ^a   Wiȩckowski, Kazimierz ^c  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; COSMIC RADIATION; LAKE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0034708247     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002547     Document Type: Article

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