The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-141

  Lang, David C ^a   Bailey, Ian ^a,b   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Beer, Christopher J ^a   Bolton, Clara T ^a,c   Friedrich, Oliver ^a,d   Newsam, Cherry ^a,e   Spencer, Megan R ^a   Gutjahr, Marcus ^a,f   Foster, Gavin L ^a   Cooper, Matthew J ^a   Milton, J Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Dust; Eolian; Laurentide ice sheet; North America; North Atlantic; Pliocene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; DUST; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; CALCITE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EOLIAN; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; EOLIAN DUST; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SEDIMENT COLORS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; DUST;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BENCHMARKING; BIOMARKER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84899732410     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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