Biogeochemical changes within the Benguela Current upwelling system during the Matuyama Diatom Maximum: Nitrogen isotope evidence from Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1082 and 1084

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 16-1-16-10

  Robinson, Rebecca S ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Benguela Current; D15N; Diatom bound d15N; Diatoms; Late Pliocene

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DIATOM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLIOCENE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0346957447     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001PA000659     Document Type: Article

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