Combined coccolith, foraminiferal, and biomarker reconstruction of paleoceanographic conditions over the past 120 kyr in the northern North Atlantic (59°N, 23°W)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 336-349

  Weaver, P P E ^a   Chapman, M R ^b   Eglinton, G ^c   Zhao, M ^d   Rutledge, D ^a   Read, G ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Dartmouth College   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

BIOMARKER; COCCOLITH; FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032822915     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900009     Document Type: Article

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