Production pattern of alkenones in the Mediterranean Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3171-3174

  Ternois, Yann ^a   Sicre, Marie Alexandrine ^b   Boireau, Anne ^a   Marty, Jean Claude ^a   Miquel, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRAPS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; BLOOMS (METAL);

ALKENONE PRODUCTION PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKENONE; ALKENONES; BIOMARKER; BIOMARKERS; LIPID; LIPIDS; PALAEOTEMPERATURE; PRODUCTION PATTERN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

COCCOLITHOPHORES; EUPHOTIC ZONE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; PRODUCTION PATTERNS; SPRING BLOOMS; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030292206     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02910     Document Type: Article

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