Late Quaternary climate change from δ18O records of multiple species of planktonic foraminifera: High-resolution records from the anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 415-427

  Lin, Hui Ling ^a,b   Peterson, Larry C ^a   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^c   Trumbore, Susan E ^d   Murray, David W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINA RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI; GLOBIGERINA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA;

ANOXIC BASIN; ANOXIC BASINS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAMINIFERA; LATE QUATERNARY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC ASSEMBLAGES; QUATERNARY (LATE); UPWELLING;

CARIBBEAN SEA, VENEZUELAN SHELF, CARIACO BASIN;

EID: 0031452601     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97pa00230     Document Type: Article

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