Millennial-scale oceanic climate variability off the Western Iberian margin during the last two glacial periods

Marine Geology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-20

  De Abreu, Lúcia ^a,b   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^a   Schönfeld, Joachim ^c   Hall, Michael ^a   Chapman, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Geologico e Mineiro   (Portugal)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iberian margin; Ice rafting; Millennial scale climate variability; Planktonic foraminifera; Sea surface temperature; Stage 6

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPOSITION; COOLING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS (IRD);

CLIMATOLOGY;

GLACIATION; ICE RAFTING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN MARGIN;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 0037446449     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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