Temperature and salinity variations of Mediterranean Sea surface waters over the last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 158, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 259-280

  Emeis, Kay Christian ^a   Struck, Ulrich ^a   Schulz, Hans Martin ^a   Rosenberg, Reinhild ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano ^b   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^c   Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko ^d   Martinez Ruiz, Francisca ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Max Eyth Str 11 13 D 24118   (Germany)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Density; Last glacial maximum; Mediterranean Sea; Salinity; Sapropel S1; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PLANKTON; SALINITY; SAPROPEL; SATURATION; SEDIMENT; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE;

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0034658703     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00053-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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