Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800000 years: Investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 343-348

  Candy, Ian ^a   Mcclymont, Erin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interglacial; Mid Brunhes event (MBE); North Atlantic; Pleistocene; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRUNHES CHRON; COMPLEXITY; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84878204248     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2632     Document Type: Article

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