Late Holocene variability of upper North Atlantic Deep Water temperature and salinity

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Marchitto, Thomas M ^a,b   DeMenocal, Peter B ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Labrador sea; Mg Ca; North atlantic deep water

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744533378     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GC000598     Document Type: Article

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