Oceanographic regimes in the northwest Labrador Sea since Marine Isotope Stage 3 based on dinocyst and stable isotope proxy records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 269-279

  Gibb, Olivia T ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   de Vernal, Anne ^a  

^a GEOTOP Research Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Foraminiferal stable isotopes; Labrador Sea; Late Pleistocene; Sea ice; Sea surface conditions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS; LABRADOR SEA; LATE PLEISTOCENE; SEA-SURFACE CONDITIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CORE ANALYSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; HUDSON STRAIT; LABRADOR SEA;

DINOPHYCEAE; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84900427659     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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