Ice-core evidence of late-holocene reduction in north Atlantic ocean heat transport

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 112, Issue , 1999, Pages 301-312

  Alley, Richard B ^a   Ágústsdóttir, Anna Mari ^a,b   Fawcett, Peter J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soil Conservation Service of Iceland   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 85040257556     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM112p0301     Document Type: Chapter

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