Stability of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7051, 2005, Pages 681-685

  Domack, Eugene ^a   Duran, Diana ^a   Leventer, Amy ^b   Ishman, Scott ^c   Doane, Sarah ^a   McCallum, Scott ^c   Amblas, David ^d   Ring, Jim ^a   Gilbert, Robert ^e   Prentice, Michael ^f  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROWTH KINETICS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; HALOCENE; PENINSULA;

ICE;

ICE; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN;

HOLOCENE; ICE SHELF;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; FORAMINIFER; GEOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WARMING;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE; DIATOMS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE; ICE COVER; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANKTON; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; LARSEN ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 23644447075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03908     Document Type: Article

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