The last interglacial as represented in the glaciochemical record from Mount Moulton Blue Ice Area, West Antarctica

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 1940-1947

  Korotkikh, Elena V ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^a   Handley, Michael J ^a   Sneed, Sharon B ^a   Introne, Douglas S ^a   Kurbatov, Andrei V ^a   Dunbar, Nelia W ^b   McIntosh, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciology; Last interglacial; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BLUE ICE; CLIMATE EVENT; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLACIOCHEMICAL RECORDS; GLACIOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ICE CORE RECORDS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PALEOCLIMATES; SEA ICE EXTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BARIUM; CESIUM; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); SEA ICE; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLACIOCHEMISTRY; GLACIOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ICE CORE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; MOUNT MOULTON; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79960097688     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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