Atlantic Water advection versus sea-ice advances in the eastern Fram Strait during the last 9 ka: Multiproxy evidence for a two-phase Holocene

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-295

  Werner, Kirstin ^a   Spielhagen, Robert F ^a,b   Bauch, Dorothea ^a,b   Hass, H Christian ^c   Kandiano, Evgeniya ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b Saxonian Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Water; Fram Strait; Holocene; planktic foraminifers; sea ice extent; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; DOMINANCE; FLOODING; HEAT FLUX; HOLOCENE; ICEBERG; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRAIT; WATER COLUMN;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT; SIBERIA;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; TURBOROTALITA QUINQUELOBA;

EID: 84878286445     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20028     Document Type: Article

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