Biogenic sedimentation and surface productivity changes in the Southern California Borderlands during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Marine Geology

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 171-192

  Mortyn, P Graham ^a,b   Thunell, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; Carbonate sediments; Foraminifera; Last glacial maximum; Laurentide ice sheet; Opal; Organic carbon; Paleoclimatology; Paleocurrents; Paleoecology; Planktonic taxa; Southern California; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSITS; BIOGENIC SEDIMENTATION; LAST GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL; OPALINE SILICA; ORGANIC CARBON; PALAEOPRODUCTIVITY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE PRODUCTIVITY;

PACIFIC, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0030908523     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(96)00105-3     Document Type: Article

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