Episodic speleothem deposition tracks the terrestrial impact of millennial-scale last glacial climate variability in SW Ireland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 152, Issue , 2016, Pages 104-117

  Fankhauser, Adelheid ^a,b   McDermott, Frank ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Greenland Interstadials; Last glacial cycle; NGRIP chronology; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CAVES; DEPOSITION; ICE; ISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS;

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; INTERSTADIALS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; LAST GLACIAL CYCLES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; NGRIP CHRONOLOGY; SPELEOTHEMS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITION; EPISODIC EVENT; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; INTERSTADIAL; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LAST GLACIAL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IRELAND;

EID: 84990890116     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.09.019     Document Type: Article

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