Sortable silt cycles in Svalbard slope sediments 74-0 ka

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 743-753

  Jessen, Simon P ^a   Rasmussen, Tine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bottom current strength; Dansgard Oeschger climate variability; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; Sortable silt

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OLDER DRYAS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SILTY CLAY; SLOPE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84954363166     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2807     Document Type: Article

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