Final deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet and implications for the Holocene global sea-level budget

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 448, Issue , 2016, Pages 34-41

  Cuzzone, Joshua K ^a   Clark, Peter U ^b   Carlson, Anders E ^b   Ullman, David J ^b   Rinterknecht, Vincent R ^c,i   Milne, Glenn A ^d   Lunkka, Juha Pekka ^e   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^f   Marcott, Shaun A ^g   Caffee, Marc ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holocene; Ice sheets; Sea level

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

SEA LEVEL;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FINLAND; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 84969850427     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.019     Document Type: Article

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