South Greenland ice-sheet collapse during Marine Isotope Stageâ 11

Nature

Volumn 510, Issue 7506, 2014, Pages 525-528

  Reyes, Alberto V ^a,b,d   Carlson, Anders E ^a,c   Beard, Brian L ^a   Hatfield, Robert G ^c   Stoner, Joseph S ^c   Winsor, Kelsey ^a   Welke, Bethany ^a,e   Ullman, David J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM;

BEDROCK; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; PROVENANCE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 11; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUNLIGHT; WARMING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84903490238     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13456     Document Type: Article

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