Oxygen-isotope variations in post-glacial Lake Ontario

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 39-50

  Hladyniuk, Ryan ^a   Longstaffe, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacial meltwater; Lake Ontario; Late Quaternary climate change; Laurentide ice sheet; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTS;

GLACIAL MELTWATER; LAKE ONTARIO; LATE QUATERNARY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES;

LAKES;

BIVALVE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLACIAL LAKE; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POSTGLACIAL; SHELL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

BIVALVIA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84954496807     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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