Holocene loess deposition in Iceland: Evidence for millenial-scale atmosphere-ocean coupling in the North Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 509-512

  Jackson, Matthew G ^a,b   Oskarsson, Niels ^a   Trønnes, Reidar G ^a   McManus, Jerry F ^b   Oppo, Delia W ^b   Grönvold, Karl ^a   Hart, Stanley R ^b   Sachs, Julian P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain size analysis; Holocene; Iceland; Loess; Paleoclimate; Wind transport

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATIONS; LOESS DEPOSITION; SOIL DEPOSITS; WINDY CLIMATE;

DEPOSITION; GEOLOGY; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOILS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HOLOCENE; LOESS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 20444454993     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21489.1     Document Type: Article

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