A speleothem record of glacial (25-11.6 kyr BP) rapid climatic changes from northern Iberian Peninsula

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 218-231

  Moreno, Ana ^a,b   Stoll, Heather ^c   Jiménez Sánchez, Montserrat ^c   Cacho, Isabel ^d   Valero Garcés, Blas ^b   Ito, Emi ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

last deglaciation; Marine Isotope Stage 2; northern Iberian Peninsula; rapid climate change; speleothems; stable isotopes; trace elements

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; HUMIDITY; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TRACE METAL;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77952108376     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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