Freshwater pulses in the eastern Arctic Ocean during Saalian and Early Weichselian ice-sheet collapse

Quaternary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-251

  Knies, Jochen ^a   Vogt, Christoph ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Freshwater; Ice sheet; Late Quaternary; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; SAALIAN; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 0346317266     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2003.07.008     Document Type: Article

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