A high-resolution Lateglacial and Holocene palaeoceanographic record from the Greenland Sea

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 273-285

  Telesiński, Maciej M ^a   Spielhagen, Robert F ^a,b   Lind, Ewa M ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b Saxonian Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAMOUNT; STRATIFICATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84897078361     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12045     Document Type: Article

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