Greenland iceberg emissions constrained by 40Ar/39Ar hornblende ages: Implications for ocean-climate variability during last deglaciation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 441-449

  Knutz, Paul C ^a   Storey, Michael ^b   Kuijpers, Antoon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baffin Bay; Bipolar seesaw; Greenland Ice Sheet; Ice rafted debris; Labrador Sea; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

BAFFIN BAY; BIPOLAR SEESAW; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LABRADOR SEA; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALLEROD; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BOLLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HORNBLENDE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84881544964     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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