Response of the pelagic environment to palaeoclimatic changes in the central Mediterranean Sea during the Late Quaternary

Marine Geology

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 39-62

  Sbaffi, Laura ^a,d,g   Wezel, Forese Carlo ^a   Kallel, Nejib ^b,c   Paterne, Martine ^b   Cacho, Isabel ^d,e   Ziveri, Patrizia ^f   Shackleton, Nicholas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biozonation; Calendar age; Late Quaternary; Planktonic environment; SST; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

PALAEOCLIMATIC CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLUXES; MARINE APPLICATIONS;

GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0035880996     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00185-2     Document Type: Article

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