Distribution of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments of the Southern Ocean (eastern Atlantic sector) between the Subtropical Front and the Weddell Gyre

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 177-208

  Esper, Oliver ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Ecology; Modern; South Atlantic; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WATER; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANIC FRONT; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DINOPHYCEAE; IMPAGIDINIUM; PROTOCERATIUM; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM;

EID: 0036742586     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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