Surface and deep-water hydrography on Gardar Drift (Iceland Basin) during the last interglacial period

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 10-19

  Hodell, David A ^a,b   Minth, Emily Kay ^b   Curtis, Jason H ^b   McCave, I Nicholas ^a   Hall, Ian R ^c   Channell, James E T ^b   Xuan, Chuang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gardar Drift; Iceland Scotland overflow; last interglacial; North Atlantic; surface hydrography; thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

GARDAR DRIFT; ICELAND-SCOTLAND OVERFLOW; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC; SURFACE HYDROGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; NAVIGATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SILT;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BATHYMETRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP WATER; GLACIATION; HYDROGRAPHY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND BASIN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 70350746060     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.040     Document Type: Article

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