The sea-level fingerprints of ice-sheet collapse during interglacial periods

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-69

  Hay, Carling ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^a   Gomez, Natalya ^a   Creveling, Jessica R ^b   Austermann, Jacqueline ^a   Kopp, Robert ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingerprinting; Ice sheets; Interglacials; Sea level; Sea level highstands

Indexed keywords

EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; FINGERPRINTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIALS; SEA-LEVEL HIGHSTANDS; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; MELTING;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84893095454     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.022     Document Type: Article

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