Late Quaternary palaeoceanography near Tasmania, southern Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 433-463

  Passlow, V ^a,d   Pinxian, Wang ^b   Chivas, A R ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c School of Geosciences   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ocean circulation; Ostracoda; Phytoplankton; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; FORAMINIFERA; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOPRODUCTIVITY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY (LATE); QUATERNARY OCEAN;

INDIAN OCEAN, (SOUTHEAST);

EPISTOMINELLA EXIGUA; OSTRACODA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030848798     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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