A 0.6 million year record of millennial-scale climate variability in the tropics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 969-975

  Gibson, Kelly Ann ^a,b   Peterson, Larry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

rapid climate change in the tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PERSISTENT FEATURE; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; TROPICAL HYDROLOGIES; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOLYBDENUM; REDOX POTENTIAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VOLUME; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 84893849133     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058846     Document Type: Article

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