Modern and palaeo-oceanographic environments under Benguela upwelling cells off southern Namibia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 85-105

  Dingle, R V ^a,c   Bremner, J M ^d   Giraudeau, J ^a,e   Buhmann, D ^b  

^a IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b Geological Survey of South Africa   (South Africa)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d Bonnyton Farm   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBOSTRACON; AQUILEGIA; BAIRDOPPILATA; COQUIMBA; CYTHERELLA; GARCIELLA; NEOCYTHERIDEIS; OSTRACODA; PALMOCONCHA; PARACYPRIS; POSEIDONAMICUS; UROCYTHEREIS; XESTOLEBERIS;

PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC, BENGUELA SYSTEM;

EID: 0030485414     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(96)00116-2     Document Type: Article

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