Changes of potential density gradients in the Northwestern north Atlantic during the last climatic cycle based on a multiproxy approach

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 126, Issue , 2001, Pages 83-100

  Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   de Vernal, Anne ^a   Candon, Laurence ^a   Bilodeau, Guy ^a   Stoner, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84988478829     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM126p0083     Document Type: Chapter

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