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... ruber bloomed during the early portion of the meltwater spike. After surface waters had warmed sufficiently at 13 ka, the low-salinity tolerant species N
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... Comparison of accelerator and radiometric measurements obtained from late Devensian late glacial lake sements from Llyn Gwernan, North Wales, UK, Boreas 17, 355-369. Malmgren, B
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... Rind (1989~. Climate change in the circum-North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation, Nature 338, 553-557.
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  • meltwater spike
  • late glacial
  • isotope record
  • oxygen isotope
  • north atlantic

  • planktic foraminifera
  • meltwater influx
  • orca basin
  • laurentide ice
  • atlantic region

  • oxygen isotopic
  • deglacial warming
  • environmental changes
  • surface water
  • geological society

  • planktonic foraminiferal


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