A low threshold for North Atlantic ice rafting from "low-slung slippery" late Pliocene ice sheets

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bailey, Ian ^a   Bolton, Clara T ^a   Deconto, Robert M ^b   Pollard, David ^c   Schiebel, Ralf ^a,d   Wilson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

ice sheets; ice rafted debris; North Atlantic; Northern Hemisphere glaciation; Pliocene; sea level

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956013038     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001736     Document Type: Article

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