The last 100,000 years in the western Mediterranean: Sea surface water and frontal dynamics as revealed by coccolithophores

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 351-366

  Flores, J A ^a   Sierro, F J ^a   Frances G ^b   Vazquez A ^c   Zamarreno, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

coccolithophores; Mediterranean; paleoceanography; Pleistocene; stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH ASSEMBLAGE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE (LATE); STRATIGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, (WEST);

COCCOLITHOPHORIDAE;

EID: 0031060978     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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