Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental events in the North Atlantic region during the Last Termination: a revised protocol recommended by the INTIMATE group

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 6-17

  Lowe, J J ^a   Rasmussen, S O ^b   Bjorck S ^c   Hoek, W Z ^d   Steffensen, J P ^b   Walker, M J C ^e   Yu, Z C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^f LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CORRELATION METHODS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION;

INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; PALAEOCLIMATIC RECORDS; REGIONAL STRATOTYPE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRATOTYPE; SYNCHRONY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 39049155379     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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