Response of upper ocean structure to the initiation of the North Hemisphere glaciation in the South China Sea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 196, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 305-318

  Huang, Baoqi ^a,b   Cheng, Xingrong ^b   Jian, Zhimin ^b   Wang, Pinxian ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Northern Hemisphere glaciation; Oxygen and carbon isotopes; Planktonic foraminifera; South China Sea; Upper water column structure

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

CIBICIDOIDES; CIBICIDOIDES WUELLERSTORFI; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER; GLOBOROTALIA CRASSAFORMIS; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA; GLOBOROTALIA MENARDII; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 0041966962     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00458-9     Document Type: Article

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