Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and oceanographical changes over the last 140 ka

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 69-90

  Höll, Christine ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a   Willems, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Cyst; Dinoflagellate; Palaeoenvironment; Quaternary; Tropical

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0342803189     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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