Transition from Late Neogene to Early Quaternary Environments

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 151-166

  Sarnthein, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arctic throughflow and Arctic albedo; East Greenland Current; Greenland ice sheet; North Atlantic and North Pacific; Northern Hemisphere glaciation; Paleo pCO2; Panama hypothesis; Plio Pleistocene boundary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891107121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53643-3.00129-1     Document Type: Chapter

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