Preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in different oxygen regimes: A 10,000 year natural experiment

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 393-405

  Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a,d   Versteegh, Gerard J M ^b   De Lange, Gert J ^c  

^a Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Inst Earth Sci Budapestlaan 4 U   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dinoflagellate cysts; oxygen; preservation

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAIN; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS; OXYGEN; PRESERVATION; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC, MADEIRA ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 0031060991     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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