On the timing and forcing mechanisms of late Pleistocene glacial terminations: Insights from a new high-resolution benthic stable oxygen isotope record of the eastern Mediterranean

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 308-320

  Konijnendijk, T Y M ^a   Ziegler, M ^a   Lourens, L J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astronomical tuning; Benthic isotopes; Mediterranean; Pleistocene; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE; ICE CONTROL; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TITANIUM;

BENTHIC OXYGEN ISOTOPE; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; INDEPENDENT AGE CONTROL; MEDITERRANEAN; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE FORCING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OBLIQUITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84951952806     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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