Tracer transport timescales and the observed Atlantic-Pacific lag in the timing of the Last Termination

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gebbie, Geoffrey ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEEP SEA; GREEN FUNCTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAWATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; TRACER;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865498270     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002273     Document Type: Article

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