Suborbital-period sea-level oscillations during marine isotope substages 5a and 5c

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 191-204

  Potter, Emma Kate ^a   Esat, Tezer M ^a   Schellmann, Gerhard ^b   Radtke, Ulrich ^c   Lambeck, Kurt ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbados; Coral; MIS 5; Sea level; U series

Indexed keywords

CORAL RECORD; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 4344561447     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.034     Document Type: Article

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