Magnetic signature of European margin sediments: Provenance of ice-rafted debris and the climatic response of the British ice sheet during Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Peters, Clare ^a   Walden, John ^a   Austin, William E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PROVENANCE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 56649103660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000836     Document Type: Article

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