100,000-year-long terrestrial record of millennial-scale linkage between eastern North American mid-latitude paleovegetation shifts and Greenland ice-core oxygen isotope trends

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-315

  Litwin, Ronald J ^a   Smoot, Joseph P ^a   Pavich, Milan J ^a   Markewich, Helaine W ^a   Brook, George ^b   Durika, Nancy J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D O events; Frequency analysis; GISP2; GRIP; Heinrich events; Late Pleistocene; Long climate record; NGRIP; Paleoclimate; Pollen

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; D-O EVENTS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GISP2; GRIP; HEINRICH EVENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NGRIP; PALEOCLIMATES; POLLEN;

FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRIP; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN; POLLEN;

NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 84883552786     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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