Holocene climate and glacial history of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula: the marine sedimentary record from a long SHALDRIL core

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3049-3065

  Michalchuk, Bradley R ^a   Anderson, John B ^a   Wellner, Julia S ^b   Manley, Patricia L ^c   Majewski, Wojciech ^d   Bohaty, Steve ^e  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; BIOGENIC SILICA; CARBONATE MATERIALS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE HISTORY; DEGLACIAL; EASTERN SIDE; ELECTRIC RESISTIVITY; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; ICE SHELVES; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MULTIPLE PROXIES; NITROGEN CONTENT; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; PALEOCLIMATES; RADIOCARBON DATES; REGIONAL WARMING; SEA FLOOR; SEA-ICE COVER; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WESTERN SIDE;

DEBRIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIATION; DIAMICTON; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 70450267461     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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