Dynamics of Atlantic water advection to the Norwegian-Greenland sea - A time-slice record of carbonate distribution in the last 300 ky

Marine Geology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 95-131

  Henrich, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic water advection; Carbonate production and preservation; Deep water formation; North South Atlantic heat transfer; Norwegian Greenland Sea paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CARBONATE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0032005688     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00103-5     Document Type: Article

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