The last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) in the western mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic: Abrupt sea surface temperature change and sea level implications

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 1853-1862

  Rodrigues, Teresa ^a,b   Grimalt, Joan O ^b   Abrantes, Fátima ^a   Naughton, Filipa ^a   Flores, José Abel ^c  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COCCOLITHOPHORES; DEGLACIATIONS; GREENLAND; HEINRICH EVENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-CONTENT; HIGHER PLANTS; HOLOCENES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IN-CORE; LAST GLACIAL; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MELTWATER PULSE; MIDLATITUDES; N-ALKANES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA SITES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SEA-SURFACE CONDITIONS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; PARAFFINS; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALKANE; ALKENONE; BIOMARKER; COCCOLITH; DEEP SEA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAST DEGLACIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 77954817341     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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