Isolation, extinction and migration within Late Pliocene populations of the planktonic foraminiferal lineage Globorotalia (Globoconella) in the North Atlantic

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 203-222

  Chapman, M R ^a   Funnell, B M ^b   Weaver, P P E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isotope stratigraphy; Late Pliocene; North Atlantic; Northern hemisphere glaciation; Oxygen; Paleoceanography; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; EXTINCTION; FORAMINIFERA; FORMINIFERA; MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0032054229     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(97)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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