Organic-walled microfossils and geochemical tracers: Sedimentary indicators of productivity changes in the North Water and northern Baffin Bay during the last centuries

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 22-23, 2002, Pages 5277-5295

  Hamel, Dominique ^a   Vernal, Anne de ^b   Gosselin, Michel ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; NUTRITION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; SURFACE WATERS;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL TRACERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0036033124     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00190-X     Document Type: Article

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