Rapid climate change and Arctic Ocean freshening: Comment and reply

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Carlson, Anders E ^a   Clark, Peter U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79961117754     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24786C.1     Document Type: Note

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