Kerguelen Plateau Quaternary-late Pliocene palaeoenvironments: From diatom, silicoflagellate and sedimentological data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 335-368

  Whitehead, J M ^a,b   McMinn, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Diatom; Kerguelen Plateau; Pliocene; Quaternary; Sediment; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCURRENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037107463     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00424-8     Document Type: Article

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