Vertical water mass mixing and plankton blooms recorded in skeletal stable carbon isotopes of a Red Sea coral

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C13, 1998, Pages 30731-30739

  Felis, Thomas ^a   Pätzold, Jürgen ^a   Loya, Yossi ^b   Wefer, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA;

ALGAL BLOOM; CORAL RECORD; MIXING; WATER MASS;

RED SEA;

EID: 0032535419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc02711     Document Type: Article

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