Variability of sea ice cover in the Chukchi Sea (western Arctic Ocean) during the Holocene

Paleoceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  de Vernal, Anne ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   Darby, Dennis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CIBICIDES WUELLERSTORFI; FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 33144472497     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001157     Document Type: Article

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