Evidence for abrupt climate changes in annually laminated marine sediments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1810, 2003, Pages 1851-1870

  Kemp, Alan E S ^a   Langhorne, D N ^b   Fairchild, I J ^c   Schmitt, T S ^d   Nisbet, E G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Off of Nav Res Intl Field Office   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diatoms; Laminated sediment; Upwelling; Varve

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141957884     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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