Climate archives from 90 to 250ka in horizontal and vertical ice cores from the allan hills blue ice area, antarctica

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 562-574

  Spaulding, Nicole E ^a   Higgins, John A ^b   Kurbatov, Andrei V ^a   Bender, Michael L ^b   Arcone, Steven A ^c   Campbell, Seth ^a,c   Dunbar, Nelia W ^d   Chimiak, Laura M ^b   Introne, Douglas S ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

18Oatm; D; 40Aratm; Allan Hills; Blue ice area; Ice core; Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 5.5; Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 7; Termination II; Termination III

Indexed keywords

40ARATM; ALLAN HILLS; BLUE ICE; ICE CORE; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; TERMINATION II; TERMINATION III;

ISOTOPES;

ICE;

ALLAN HILLS METEORITE; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ALLAN HILLS; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84887030082     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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