Western Arctic Ocean temperature variability during the last 8000 years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Farmer, Jesse R ^a,b   Cronin, Thomas M ^a   De Vernal, Anne ^c   Dwyer, Gary S ^d   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^e   Thunell, Robert C ^f  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

15TH CENTURY; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN; EASTERN ARCTIC; MEAN TEMPERATURE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SEA-ICE COVER; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM TEMPERATURES; WATER DEPTH;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ICE COVER; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGNESIUM; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 84055197823     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049714     Document Type: Article

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