The California Current of the Last Glacial Maximum: Reconstruction at 42°N based on multiple proxies

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-205

  Ortiz, Joseph ^a,d   Mix, Alan ^a   Hostetler, Steve ^b   Kashgarian, Michaele ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTION; PALAEOCURRENTS; POLAR FRONTS; RECONSTRUCTION; THERMAL GRADIENT; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC, CALIFORNIA CURRENT;

EID: 0030826477     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA03165     Document Type: Article

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