Late quaternary ice-rafting events in the SW Pacific Ocean, off eastern New Zealand

Marine Geology

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 19-35

  Carter, Lionel ^a   Neil, Helen L ^a   Northcote, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Antarctica; Campbell Plateau; Ice rafted debris; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS (IRD); MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES (MIS);

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037145656     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00509-1     Document Type: Article

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