Causes of ice age intensification across the mid-pleistocene transition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 50, 2017, Pages 13114-13119

  Chalk, Thomas B ^a,b   Hain, Mathis P ^a   Foster, Gavin L ^a   Rohling, Eelco J ^a,c   Sexton, Philip F ^d   Badger, Marcus P S ^d,e   Cherry, Soraya G ^a   Hasenfratz, Adam P ^f   Haug, Gerald H ^g   Jaccard, Samuel L ^h   Martínez García, Alfredo ^g   Pälike, Heiko ^a,i   Pancost, Richard D ^e   Wilson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boron isotopes; Carbon dioxide; Geochemistry; MPT; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN 18;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE AGE; MID PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 85038602016     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702143114     Document Type: Article

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