The status of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and adjacent land at the Last Glacial Maximum

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 25-35

  De Deckker, Patrick ^a   Tapper, N J ^b   Van der Kaars, S ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Indo Pacific Warm Pool; Last Glacial Maximum; Oxygen isotopes; Precipitation; Sea level changes; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; WARM POOL;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0037211837     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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