Temporal variability in the northern Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) during the last 225,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 607-621

  Reichart, G J ^a   Lourens, L J ^a   Zachariasse, W J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DENITRIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0032437191     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA02203     Document Type: Article

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