Multiple monsoon-controlled breakdown of oxygen-minimum conditions during the past 30,000 years documented in laminated sediments off Pakistan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 129-161

  Von Rad, Ulrich ^a   Schulz, Hartmut ^a   Riech, Volkher ^a   Den Dulk, Maryke ^b   Berner, Ulrich ^a   Sirocko, Frank ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaerobic environment; Arabian Sea; Chemical composition; Foraminifera; Late Quaternary; Monsoons; Pakistan; Palaeoclimatology; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; MONSOON; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

PAKISTAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; PTEROPODA;

EID: 0033566916     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00042-5     Document Type: Article

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