Greenland glacial history, borehole constraints, and Eemian extent

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Tarasov, L ^a   Peltier, W Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eemian; Geothermal heat flux; Greenland ice sheet; GRIP ice core; Relative sea level; Semi Lagrangian tracer

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; EEMIAN; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0037827319     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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