Detrital carbonate peaks on the Labrador shelf, a 13-7ka template for freshwater forcing from the Hudson Strait outlet of the Laurentide Ice Sheet into the subpolar gyre

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-80

  Jennings, Anne ^a   Andrews, John ^a   Pearce, Christof ^b   Wilson, Lindsay ^c   Ólfasdótttir, Sædís ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Detrital carbonate peaks; Freshwater forcing; Glacial events; Holocene deglaciation; Hudson Strait outlet; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; GLACIERS; LAKES; SEA ICE; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER;

DEGLACIATIONS; DETRITAL CARBONATE; FRESHWATER FORCING; GLACIAL EVENTS; HUDSON STRAIT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; SUBPOLAR GYRES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONATE; DEGLACIATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DISCHARGE; FRESHWATER INPUT; GYRE; ICE RETREAT; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; HUDSON STRAIT; LABRADOR SEA; LABRADOR SHELF;

EID: 84909960067     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.022     Document Type: Article

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