Paired benthic foraminiferal Cd/Ca and Zn/Ca evidence for a greatly increased presence of Southern Ocean Water in the glacial North Atlantic

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 10-1-10-18

  Marchitto, Thomas M ^a   Oppo, Delia W ^b   Curry, William B ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Deep circulation; LGM; North Atlantic; Zinc

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CADMIUM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; ZINC;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CIBICIDOIDES; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0036764699     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000PA000598     Document Type: Article

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