Latest Miocene-Pleistocene productivity and deep-sea ventilation in the northwestern Indian Ocean (Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 219)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 62-73

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Thomas, Ellen ^b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; NEOGENE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032987783     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998PA900006     Document Type: Article

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