Time-slice reconstructions of ocean circulation changes on the continental shelf in the Nordic and Barents Seas during the last 16,000 cal yr B.P.

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 15-16, 2008, Pages 1476-1492

  Ślubowska Woldengen, Marta ^a,b   Koç, Nalân ^b,c   Rasmussen, Tine L ^b   Klitgaard Kristensen, Dorthe ^c   Hald, Morten ^b   Jennings, Anne E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC WATER (AW); BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COLD CONDITIONS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ELSEVIER (CO); HOLOCENE; ICELAND; IN ORDER; NORDIC SEAS; NORTHERN LATITUDES; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); WARMER CONDITIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS (YD);

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HOLOCENE; INFLOW; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RECONSTRUCTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 48149112618     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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