Coccolithophorids from the Southeast Greenland Margin (Northern North Atlantic): Production, ecology and the surface sediment record

Micropaleontology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages 23-34

  Balestra, Barbara ^a   Ziveri, Patrizia ^b   Monechi, Simonetta ^a   Troelstra, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA SURFACE; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

COCCOLITHUS; COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; SYRACOSPHAERA;

EID: 12544256161     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/50.Suppl_1.23     Document Type: Article

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