Long-chain alkenones and alkyl alkenoates as palaeotemperature indicators: their production, flux and early sedimentary diagenesis in the Eastern North Atlantic

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 1-3, 1992, Pages 287-298

  Conte, Maureen H ^a   Eglinton, Geoffrey ^a   Madureira, Luiz A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alkenoates; alkenones; biomarkers; palaeo oceanography; particulate material; recent sediments

Indexed keywords

MARINE BIOLOGY; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALKENONE UNSATURATION; ALKYL ALKENOATES; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL VARIABILITY; COCCOLITHOPHORID PRODUCTION; DIAGENETIC LOSSES; EUPHOTIC ZONE; LONG CHAIN ALKENONES; PALAEOTEMPERATURE INDICATORS; SEDIMENTARY DIAGENESIS; WATER COLUMN;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALKENOATE; ALKENOATES; ALKENONE; ALKENONES; BIOMARKER; DIAGENESIS; PALAEOOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOTEMPERATURE; PARTICULATE MATERIAL;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); ATLANTIC, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0027006986     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(92)90044-X     Document Type: Article

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