Seasonal Laurentide Ice Sheet melting during the "Mystery Interval" (17.5-14.5 ka)

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 955-958

  Williams, Carlie ^a   Flower, Benjamin P ^a   Hastings, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN SEDIMENTS; COLD SURFACE; DEGLACIATIONS; GULF OF MEXICO; ICE SHEET; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEASONALITY; SNOWLINE; WINTER CONDITIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

MELTING; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS;

GLACIERS;

DEGLACIATION; GLACIER; GLACIER RETREAT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTING; MELTWATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; SNOWLINE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF OF MEXICO; ORCA BASIN;

FORAMINIFERA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 84868712304     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33279.1     Document Type: Article

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