Response of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, to Holocene climate change

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-134

  Young, Nicolás E ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a   Stewart, Heather A M ^a   Axford, Yarrow ^b   Csatho, Beata ^a   Rood, Dylan H ^c,d   Finkel, Robert C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

GLACIERS; ICE; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; JAKOBSHAVN ISBRAE;

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78851472018     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31399.1     Document Type: Article

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