Orbitally forced ice sheet fluctuations during the Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 704-707

  Benn, Douglas I ^a,b   Le Hir, Guillaume ^c   Bao, Huiming ^d   Donnadieu, Yannick ^e   Dumas, Christophe ^e   Fleming, Edward J ^a,f,j   Hambrey, Michael J ^g   McMillan, Emily A ^f   Petronis, Michael S ^h   Ramstein, Gilles ^e   Stevenson, Carl T E ^f   Wynn, Peter M ⁱ   Fairchild, Ian J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j CASP   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ORBITAL FORCING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOLATITUDE; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THRESHOLD; WARMING;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84940515515     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2502     Document Type: Article

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