Major Δ 14C excursions during the late glacial and early Holocene: Changes in ocean ventilation or solar forcing of climate change?

Quaternary International

Volumn 104, Issue , 2003, Pages 71-76

  van Geel, Bas ^a   van der Plicht, Johannes ^b   Renssen, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE;

EID: 0037268383     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6182(02)00152-0     Document Type: Article

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