The response of the southern Greenland ice sheet to the Holocene thermal maximum

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 291-294

  Larsen, Nicolaj K ^a   Kjær, Kurt H ^b   Lecavalier, Benoit ^c,e   Bjørk, Anders A ^b   Colding, Sune ^a   Huybrechts, Philippe ^d   Jakobsen, Karina E ^a   Kjeldsen, Kristian K ^b   Knudsen, Karen Luise ^a   Odgaard, Bent V ^a   Olsen, Jesper ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIERS; LAKES; SEA LEVEL;

GEOLOGICAL DATA; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; ICE VOLUMES; LONG-TERM SENSITIVITY; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; VOLUME REDUCTIONS;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84943920525     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36476.1     Document Type: Article

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