How much did Glacial North Atlantic Water shoal?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 190-209

  Gebbie, Geoffrey ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

circulation variability; inverse methods; Last Glacial Maximum; remineralization; tracer distributions; water mass geometry

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; REMINERALIZATION; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84898783940     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002557     Document Type: Article

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