Mid- to late-Holocene oceanographic variability on the Southeast Greenland shelf

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-178

  Andresen, C S ^a   Hansen, M J ^b   Seidenkrantz, M S ^b   Jennings, A E ^c   Knudsen, M F ^b   Norgaard Pedersen N ^a   Larsen, N K ^b   Kuijpers, A ^a   Pearce, C ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

East Greenland Current; foraminifera; Irminger Current; outlet glaciers; sedimentology; shelf; subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CHRONOLOGY; FJORD; GRAIN SIZE; GYRE; HYPSITHERMAL; LEAD-LEAD DATING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELTWATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER MASS; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; EAST GREENLAND SHELF; GREENLAND; GREENLAND SEA; IRMINGER CURRENT; IRMINGER SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; SERMILIK;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84872980934     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612460789     Document Type: Article

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