Advection of Atlantic Water to the western and northern Svalbard shelf since 17,500 cal yr BP

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 463-478

  Ślubowska Woldengen, Marta ^a,b   Rasmussen, Tine L ^b   Koç, Nalân ^b,c   Klitgaard Kristensen, Dorthe ^c   Nilsen, Frank ^a   Solheim, Anders ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; WIND EFFECTS; HEAT FLUX; LITHOLOGY;

BOTTOM WATERS TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENE WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MOORING;

ADVECTION; ALLEROD; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOLLING; BOTTOM WATER; COOLING; INSOLATION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; WARMING; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

FORAMINIFERA;

ATLANTIC WATER; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; NORDIC SEAS; SOLAR INSOLATION; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SVALBARD; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WIND FORCES;

EID: 33847306828     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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