A depth-derived Pleistocene age model: Uncertainty estimates, sedimentation variability, and nonlinear climate change

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Huybers, Peter ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear; Sediment accumulation; Tuning

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 18344418209     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002PA000857     Document Type: Article

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