Incursions of southern-sourced water into the deep North Atlantic during late Pliocene glacial intensification

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 375-379

  Lang, David C ^a   Bailey, Ian ^a,b   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Chalk, Thomas B ^a,c   Foster, Gavin L ^a   Gutjahr, Marcus ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP SEA; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NEW RECORD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLIOCENE; SEA ICE; STRATIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84971201042     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2688     Document Type: Article

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