Response of Iberian Margin sediments to orbital and suborbital forcing over the past 420 ka

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 185-199

  Hodell, David ^a   Crowhurst, Simon ^a   Skinner, Luke ^a   Tzedakis, Polychronis C ^b   Margari, Vasiliki ^b   Channell, James E T ^c   Kamenov, George ^c   MacLachlan, Suzanne ^d   Rothwell, Guy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iberian Margin; millennial variability; orbital forcing; paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

ECCENTRICITY; ICE CORE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 84876730373     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20017     Document Type: Article

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