Temporal relationship of carbon cycling and ocean circulation at glacial boundaries

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5717, 2005, Pages 1933-1938

  Piotrowski, Alexander M ^a,b   Goldstein, Steven L ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Fairbanks, Richard G ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON CYCLING; GLACIAL BOUNDARIES; ICE SHEETS; OCEAN CIRCULATION;

GLACIERS;

CARBON CYCLE; GLACIATION;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WARMING;

EID: 15544365711     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104883     Document Type: Article

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53. This manuscript benefited from discussions with R. Anderson, S. Barker, W. Broecker, H. Elderfield, E. Martin, J. McManus, U. Ninnemann, H. Scher, and A. Tripati; laboratory assistance from D. Zylberberg and comments by anonymous reviewers. This study was supported by NSF grants OCE 98-09253 and OCE 00-96427 to S.L.G. and S.R.H. and ATM03-27722 and OCE99-11637 to R.G.F. Samples used in this project were provided by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Deep-Sea Sample Repository, supported by the NSF (grant OCE 00-02380) and the Office of Naval Research (grant N00014-02-1-0073). This is LDEO Contribution #6702.