Holocene North Atlantic surface circulation and climatic variability: Evidence from diatom records

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-96

  Witak, Małgorzata ^a   Wachnicka, Anna ^b   Kuijpers, Antoon ^c   Troelstra, Simon ^d   Prins, Maarten A ^d   Witkowski, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate; Diatoms; Holocene; Marine sediments; North Atlantic; Ocean circulation; Palaeooceanography

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; HOLOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

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

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 12544259925     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl768rp     Document Type: Article

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