The north Atlantic’s 1-2 Kyr climate rhythm: Relation to heinrich events, dansgaard/oeschger cycles and the little ice age

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 112, Issue , 1999, Pages 35-58

  Bond, Gerard C ^a   Showers, William ^b   Elliot, Mary ^c   Evans, Michael ^a   Lott, Rusty ^a   Hajdas, Lrka ^d   Bonani, Georges ^d   Johnson, Sigfus ^e,f  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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EID: 85040118384     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM112p0035     Document Type: Chapter

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