Rapid climate change and conditional instability of the glacial deep ocean from the thermobaric effect and geothermal heating

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 581-594

  Adkins, Jess F ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a   Pasquero, Claudia ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL HEATING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CONVECTIVELY AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY (CAPE); LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); SALINITY STRATIFICATION; THERMOBARIC EFFECTS; WATER COLUMNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DEEP WATER; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SALINITY;

EID: 14744278307     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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