Insights into Late Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton assemblages under the theory of statistical analysis for compositional data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 202, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 209-227

  Buccianti, Antonella ^a   Esposito, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biplot analysis; Calcareous nannofossils; Compositional data analysis; Late Quaternary; Simplicial principal component analysis; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 0346040109     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00635-7     Document Type: Article

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