Response of a marine-terminating Greenland outlet glacier to abrupt cooling 8200 and 9300 years ago

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Young, Nicols E ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a   Axford, Yarrow ^b   Csatho, Beata ^a   Babonis, Greg S ^a   Rood, Dylan H ^c,d,e   Finkel, Robert C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIERS; ICE; LAKES;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; LAG TIME; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LONG TERM RECORDS; MAGNITUDE RESPONSE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE FLOW; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MORAINE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; JAKOBSHAVN ISBRAE;

EID: 84055188712     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049639     Document Type: Article

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