Restricted impact of Holocene climate variations on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 3171-3180

  Larsen, Nicolaj K ^a   Kjær, Kurt H ^b   Olsen, Jesper ^c   Funder, Svend ^b   Kjeldsen, Kristian K ^b   Nørgaard Pedersen, Niels ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate; Holocene; Ice fluctuations; Southern Greenland Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL MELTWATER; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; LITTLE ICE AGE; SOUTHERN GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

ICE;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DEGLACIATION; EPISODIC EVENT; GIS; GYTTJA; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 80052926316     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.022     Document Type: Article

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