Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5514-5521

  Carlson, Anders E ^a   Winsor, Kelsey ^b   Ullman, David J ^a   Brook, Edward J ^a   Rood, Dylan H ^c,d   Axford, Yarrow ^e   Legrande, Allegra N ^f   Anslow, Faron S ^g   Sinclair, Gaylen ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cosmogenic dating; early Holocene climate; Greenland ice sheet

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIERS;

COSMOGENIC DATING; EARLY HOLOCENE; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LAST DEGLACIATION; SUMMER CLIMATE; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; WEST GREENLAND; LATE HOLOCENE; TIME-SCALES;

GLACIERS; ICE;

HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; SUMMER; TIMESCALE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84905295382     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060800     Document Type: Article

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