Using relative sea-level data to constrain the deglacial and Holocene history of southern Greenland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 345-356

  Woodroffe, Sarah A ^a   Long, Antony J ^a   Lecavalier, Benoit S ^b   Milne, Glenn A ^b   Bryant, Charlotte L ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Geophysical model; Greenland Ice Sheet; Isolation basin; Relative sea level; Southern Greenland

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL;

DEGLACIATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ISOLATION BASIN; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE FORCING; DATA SET; DEGLACIATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; LOWSTAND; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PAAMIUT; SISIMIUT HARBOUR; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84900464695     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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