Links between early Holocene ice-sheet decay, sea-level rise and abrupt climate change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 601-606

  Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^a,b   Hijma, Marc P ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MISSISSIPPI; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865748728     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1536     Document Type: Article

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