Multiple-stage deglacial retreat of the southern Greenland Ice Sheet linked with Irminger Current warm water transport

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Knutz, Paul C ^a   Sicre, Marie Alexandrine ^b   Ebbesen, Hanne ^a   Christiansen, Sarah ^c   Kuijpers, Antoon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIER RETREAT; HEINRICH EVENT; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MELTWATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TEPHRA; WARM WATER; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IRMINGER CURRENT;

EID: 79961116178     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002053     Document Type: Article

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