Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic implications of enhanced holocene discharge from the mississippi river based on the sedimentology and geochemistry of a deep core (JPC-26) from the gulf of Mexico

Palaios

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 623-636

  Tripsanas, Efthymios K ^a,b   Karageorgis, Aristomenis P ^b   Panagiotopoulos, Ioannis P ^b   Koutsopoulou, Eleni ^c   Kanellopoulos, Theodore D ^b   Bryant, William R ^a   Slowey, Niall C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; DISCHARGE; FLOODING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; IRRADIANCE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896694130     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-060r     Document Type: Article

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