Planktonic foraminifera as recorders of past surface-water stratification

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 335-338

  Mulitza, Stefan ^a   Dürkoop, Anke ^a   Hale, Walter ^a   Wefer, Gerold ^a   Niebler, Hans Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; ISOTOPES; TROPICS;

GRAVITY CORE; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; MIXED LAYER; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SHELL FORMATION; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMNS; WATER CONDITIONS; HOLOCENES;

SURFACE WATERS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAWATER; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WATER; FORAMINIFERA; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATER STRATIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC;

GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER; GLOBOROTALIA TRUNCATULINOIDES; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 0030976357     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0335:PFAROP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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