Temperature and salinity records of the Tyrrhenian Sea during the last 18,000 years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 97-108

  Kallel, Nejib ^a,b   Paterne, Martine ^a   Labeyrie, Laurent ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^a   Arnold, Maurice ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Dept de Géologie ^*  (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Mediterranean Sea; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimatology; Sapropel events

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOSALINITY; QUATERNARY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SST;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 0031438143     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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