Radiolarian fluxes from the southern Bay of Bengal: Sediment trap results

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1669-1688

  Gupta, Shyam M ^a   Mohan, Rahul ^b   Guptha, M V S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Foraminifers; Monsoon flux; Radiolarians; Sediment trap

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTS;

RADIOLARIAN FLUXES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FORAMINIFERA; MONSOON; RADIOLARIA; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT TRAP;

BAY OF BENGAL;

FORAMINIFERA; NASSELLARIA; POLYCYSTINEA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); SPUMELLARIA;

EID: 0036710861     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(02)00085-7     Document Type: Article

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