Pink marine sediments reveal rapid ice melt and Arctic meltwater discharge during Dansgaard-Oeschger warmings

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rasmussen, Tine L ^a   Thomsen, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELTING; MELTWATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CLAY; DANSGAARD OESCHGER WARMING; DEGLACIATION; DEVONIAN; GLACIATION; GREENLAND; HEAT; ICE SHEET; SEDIMENT; SUSPENSION; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ARCTIC REGIONS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84888321107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3849     Document Type: Article

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