Anomalous occurrences of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (left) in a 420-ky upwelling record from Walvis Ridge (SE Atlantic)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 23-42

  Ufkes, E ^a   Jansen, J H F ^a   Schneider, R R ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contour jets; Late Pleistocene; Left coiled Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; Planktonic foraminifera; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUATERNARY; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 0033854641     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(00)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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