Oscillating glacial northern and southern deep water formation from combined neodymium and carbon isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 394-405

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; Heinrich Events; interstadials; last glacial; ocean circulation; paleoclimate; southern ocean

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENIC; BALANCE (WEIGHTING); BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; BOTTOM WATER (BW); CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; DEEP SEA; DEEP WATER FORMATIONS; DEEP WATERS; ELSEVIER (CO); GAIN INSIGHT; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GREEN LAND; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; ISOTOPE RATIOS; ISOTOPE RECORD; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD (LGP); MONITOR (CO); NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; PARTIAL CONTROL; REGENERATION (RENOVATING); SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH); SOUTHERN OCEAN (SO); TIME-SCALES; WATER MASS EXPORT; WATER MASSES;

ATMOSPHERICS; BATHYMETRY; CARBON; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING WATER; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP WATER FORMATION; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CAPE BASIN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 47749153709     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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