Similar millennial climate variability on the Iberian margin during two early Pleistocene glacials and MIS 3

Paleoceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 203-217

  Birner, B ^a   Hodell, D A ^a   Tzedakis, P C ^b   Skinner, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

early Pleistocene; Iberian margin; interhemispheric linkage; millennial variability

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; ICE RAFTING; LAST GLACIAL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 84958761618     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002868     Document Type: Article

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