Late Pleistocene to Holocene composite speleothem 18O and 13C chronologies from South Island, New Zealand - Did a global Younger Dryas really exist?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 301-317

  Williams, P W ^a   King, D N T ^b   Zhao, J X ^c   Collerson, K D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; New Zealand; Palaeoclimate; Quaternary; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSAL (ACR); STALAGMITES; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY (TIMS); YOUNGER DRYAS (YD);

CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WETTING;

RADIOACTIVE PROSPECTING;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

EID: 12744253992     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.024     Document Type: Article

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