Holocene fluctuations of Bregne ice cap, Scoresby Sund, east Greenland: A proxy for climate along the Greenland Ice Sheet margin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 357-368

  Levy, Laura B ^a   Kelly, Meredith A ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^b   Hall, Brenda L ^c   Hempel, Laura A ^a   Honsaker, William M ^b   Lusas, Amanda R ^c   Howley, Jennifer A ^a   Axford, Yarrow L ^d  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; Holocene; Lake sediment cores; Scoresby Sund

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; LAKES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTS;

GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENT CORES; SCORESBY SUND;

SNOW;

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRYOSPHERE; DEGLACIATION; GRIP; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAMINATION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SILT; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ARCTIC; BREGNE ICE CAP; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; SCORESBY SUND;

EID: 84900463671     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.024     Document Type: Article

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