Detecting holocene changes in thermohaline circulation

TitleDetecting holocene changes in thermohaline circulation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsKeigwin, LD, Boyle, EA
JournalProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Volume97
Issue4
Pagination1343-6
Date PublishedFeb 15
ISBN Number0027-8424 (Print)0027-8424 (Linking)
Keywords*Climate, *Plankton, Animals, Atlantic Ocean, carbon isotopes, ice, oxygen isotopes, time
Abstract

Throughout the last glacial cycle, reorganizations of deep ocean water masses were coincident with rapid millennial-scale changes in climate. Climate changes have been less severe during the present interglacial, but evidence for concurrent deep ocean circulation change is ambiguous.

URLhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10677463
DOI10.1073/pnas.97.4.1343