Laurentide ice-sheet instability during the last deglaciation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 534-537

  Ullman, David J ^a,b   Carlson, Anders E ^a,b   Anslow, Faron S ^c   Legrande, Allegra N ^d   Licciardi, Joseph M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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

^e Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

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EID: 84934273408     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2463     Document Type: Article

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