Abrupt Younger Dryas cooling in the northern tropics recorded in lake sediments from the Venezuelan Andes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 154-163

  Stansell, Nathan D ^a   Abbott, Mark B ^a   Rull, Valentí ^b   Rodbell, Donald T ^c   Bezada, Maximiliano ^d   Montoya, Encarni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Libertador   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Glacier mass balance; Late Glacial; Paleoclimate; Palynology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL STAGES; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGHER LATITUDES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE GLACIAL; LATE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MASS BALANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATES; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL ANDES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; VENEZUELA; WARMER CONDITIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANDES;

EID: 77950341046     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.040     Document Type: Article

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