Intensification and variability of ocean thermohaline circulation through the last deglaciation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 205-220

  Piotrowski, Alexander M ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Fairbanks, Richard G ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep water; Deglacial; Last glacial; Neodymium; Thermohaline circulation; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

LAST DEGLACIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 4344671176     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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