Antarctic Ice Sheet response to a long warm interval across Marine Isotope Stage 31: A cross-latitudinal study of iceberg-rafted debris

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 409, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-119

  Teitler, Lora ^a   Florindo, Fabio ^b   Warnke, Detlef A ^a   Filippelli, Gabriel M ^c   Kupp, Gary ^a   Taylor, Brian ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctic Ice Sheet stability; Iceberg rafted debris; Marine Isotope Stage 31; Middle Pleistocene Transition; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; CLIMATE TRANSITION; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY;

ICE;

ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; EAST ANTARCTICA; INDIAN OCEAN; PRYDZ BAY;

EID: 84910661877     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.037     Document Type: Article

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