Enhanced rainfall in the Mediterranean region during the last Sapropel Event

Oceanologica Acta

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 697-712

  Kallel, Nejib ^a,b   Paterne, Martine ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^a   Vergnaud Grazzini, Colette ^c   Pujol, Claude ^a   Labeyrie, Laurent ^a   Arnold, Maurice ^a   Fontugne, Michel ^a   Pierre, Catherine ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SAPROPEL; SAPROPELS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 0030760495     PISSN: 03991784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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