Late Holocene productivity and hydrographic variability in the eastern Mediterranean inferred from benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Schilman, Bettina ^a   Almogi Labin, Ahuva ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a   Luz, Boaz ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Late Holocene; Paleohydrography; Paleoproductivity

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; HYDROGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BULIMINA; BULIMINA INFLATA; FORAMINIFERA; UVIGERINA; UVIGERINA MEDITERRANEA;

EID: 0346271544     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002pa000813     Document Type: Article

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