Late Quaternary Protoperidinium cysts as indicators of paleoproductivity in the northern Arabian Sea

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-315

  Reichart, Gert Jan ^a,b   Brinkhuis, Henk ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; Geochemistry; Marine productivity; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Planktonic foraminifera; Protoperidinium

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

DINOFLAGELLATA; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; PROTOPERIDINIUM;

EID: 0344287469     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(03)00050-1     Document Type: Article

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