Tracing time in the ocean: A brief review of chronological constraints (60-8 kyr) on North Atlantic marine event-based stratigraphies

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-37

  Austin, William E N ^a   Hibbert, Fiona D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event stratigraphy; Marine chronostratigraphy; Radiocarbon; Tephra; Tuning

Indexed keywords

AGE CONTROL; AGE EFFECTS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-STRATIGRAPHY; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NEW PROTOCOL; NORTH ATLANTIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RADIOCARBON; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE CONTROL; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TUNING;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84857366630     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.015     Document Type: Article

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