Early Holocene decadal-scale ocean variability recorded in Gulf of California laminated sediments

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-238

  Pike, Jennifer ^a   Kemp, Alan E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DECADAL-SCALE VARIABILITY; EARLY HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE DEPOSIT; LAMINATED; LAMINATED SEDIMENT; MICROFOSSILS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN VARIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SOLAR FORCING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA, GUAYMAS BASIN;

THALASSIOTHRIX LONGISSIMA;

EID: 0030779854     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA03132     Document Type: Article

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