Setting a chronology for the basal ice at Dye-3 and GRIP: Implications for the long-term stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 451, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-9

  Yau, Audrey M ^a   Bender, Michael L ^a,b   Blunier, Thomas ^c   Jouzel, Jean ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Ar dating; Dye 3; Greenland Ice Sheet; GRIP; 17 stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIERS; STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GRIP; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LONG TERM STABILITY;

ICE;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASAL ICE; CHRONOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GIS; GRIP; ICE CORE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84978877109     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.053     Document Type: Article

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