Middle Eocene to early Miocene environmental changes in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean: Evidence from biogenic and terrigenous depositional patterns at ODP Site 1090

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 295-313

  Diekmann, Bernhard ^a   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^a   Mackensen, Andreas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Eocene Oligocene; Ocean circulation; Opal pulse; Palaeoclimate; Southern Ocean; Terrigenous sediment

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

HIATUS;

EID: 0348223978     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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