Abrupt climatic events during the last glacial-interglacial transition in Alaska

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Hu, Feng Sheng ^a   Nelson, David M ^a   Clarke, Gina H ^a   Rühland, Kathleen M ^b   Huang, Yongsong ^c   Kaufman, Darrell S ^d   Smol, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS; CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON;

LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; PALEOCLIMATE PATTERN;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EVENTS; CLIMATIC WARMING; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; LAST GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITIONS; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

EID: 38549145978     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027261     Document Type: Article

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