Multispecies approach to reconstructing eastern equatorial Pacific thermocline hydrography during the past 360 kyr

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Spero, Howard J ^a   Mielke, Koreen M ^a   Kalve, Erica M ^a   Lea, David W ^b   Pak, Dorothy K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope; Oxygen isotope; Paleotemperature equations; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; HYDROGRAPH; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; THERMOCLINE;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER; GLOBOROTALIA; GLOBOROTALIA MENARDII; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI;

EID: 0038163448     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002PA000814     Document Type: Article

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