Response of Western Pacific marginal seas to glacial cycles: Paleoceanographic and sedimentological features

Marine Geology

Volumn 156, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 5-39

  Wang, Pinxian ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbonate cycles; Last glacial maximum; Marginal seas; Paleoclimate; Sedimentation rate; Western Pacific warm pool

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MARGINAL SEA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033559812     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00172-8     Document Type: Article

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