Patterns of export production in the eastern equatorial Pacific over the past 130,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Loubere, Paul ^a   Fariduddin, Mohammad ^a   Murray, Richard W ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equatorial Pacific; Late pleistocene; Paleoceanography; Productivity; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; UPWELLING;

(EQUATORIAL EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0142058842     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001pa000658     Document Type: Article

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