8000 year marine record of climate variability and fjord dynamics from Southern Greenland

Marine Geology

Volumn 264, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 177-189

  Nørgaard Pedersen, Niels ^a   Mikkelsen, Naja ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

benthic foraminifera; fjord; grain size analysis; Greenland Ice Sheet; holocene; IRD; paleoceanography; sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; FJORD; GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENE; IRD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; GLACIERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

ICE;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FJORD; GLACIATION; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; MARINE RECORD; MELTING; NEOGLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IKERSUAQ FJORD; IRMINGER SEA; NARSAQ;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 67650684939     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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