Tracing dust in the Southern Hemisphere over the last glacial cycle

• Main Author: Borunda, Alejandra
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2019
• Subjects: Geochemistry; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Climatic changes; Mineral dusts; Dust; Atmospheric circulation; Ice cores; West Antarctica; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Taylor Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-rmak-qn20; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-rmak-qn20

Mineral dust both influences and is influenced by climate on many timescales, from seconds to epochs. Its complex interactions with the climate system are still being unraveled. For example, dust fluxes change in tandem with other records of past changes in climate, and dust source is often presumed...