Interglacial responses of the southern Greenland ice sheet over the last 430,000 years determined using particle-size specific magnetic and isotopic tracers

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 454, Issue , 2016, Pages 225-236

  Hatfield, Robert G ^a   Reyes, Alberto V ^b,c   Stoner, Joseph S ^a   Carlson, Anders E ^a,c   Beard, Brian L ^c   Winsor, Kelsey ^c,d   Welke, Bethany ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic properties; quaternary climate change; radiogenic isotopes; sea level rise; sediment tracing; South Greenland ice sheet

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SILT; SOLAR RADIATION; STRONTIUM;

GREENLAND ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT TRACING;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84992381836     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.014     Document Type: Article

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