Enhanced sea-ice export from the Arctic during the Younger Dryas

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Not, Christelle ^a,b   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LIMESTONE; ICE; SEA WATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LAKE; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT; ANIMAL; FORAMINIFER; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WATER FLOW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; FORAMINIFERA; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE; ICE COVER; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84856754656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1658     Document Type: Article

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