Do Diatoms beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Indicate Interglacials Warmer than Present?’

• Main Author: David M. Harwood
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1985
• Subjects: cene Sirius Formation tillite; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc; Dater; Greenland; Sirius; Antarc*; Arctic; Groenland; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.565.7433; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-4-304.pdf

ABSTRACT. Basal sediment debris from the Greenland Ice Sheet was examined with the hope of recovering microfossils that could be used to determine and date changes in ice sheet size through time. Basal debris and debris-laden ice from the lower 18 m of the Camp Century ice core, northwest Greenland,...