Pleistocene fluctuations in the Agulhas Current Retroflection based on the calcareous plankton record

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-22

  Flores, José Abel ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^b   Sierro, F Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agulhas Current; Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Oxygen isotope stratigraphy; Paleoceanography; Planktonic foraminifera; Pleistocene; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; NATURAL BARRIER; PALEOCURRENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032969913     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(99)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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