Monsoon climate and Arabian Sea coastal upwelling recorded in massive corals from southern Oman

Palaios

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 347-361

  Tudhope, Alexander W ^a   Lea, David W ^b   Shimmield, Graham B ^a   Chilcott, Colin P ^a   Head, Stephen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d Northmoor Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; CORAL; MONSOON; MONSOONS; SKELETAL CHEMISTRY; UPWELLING;

OMAN;

EID: 0030427738     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515245     Document Type: Article

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