The Greenland Ice Sheet During the Past 300,000 Years: A Review

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 699-713

  Funder, Svend ^a   Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup ^a   Kjær, Kurt Henrik ^a   O Cofaigh, Colm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Greenland ice sheet; Ice sheet stability; Interglacial glacial; Mid Late Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959995044     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00050-7     Document Type: Book

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