Barbados-based estimate of ice volume at Last Glacial Maximum affected by subducted plate

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 553-557

  Austermann, Jacqueline ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^a   Latychev, Konstantin ^b   Milne, Glenn A ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; FOSSIL FUEL; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOELASTICITY; VOLUME;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84879746793     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1859     Document Type: Article

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