The intensification of northern component deepwater formation during the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1046-1061

  Poirier, Robert K ^a,b   Billups, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

100 kyr glacial cycle; deep circulation; mid Pleistocene transition; Nordic heat pump

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP WATER; INTERGLACIAL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84949114832     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002661     Document Type: Article

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