Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT) in the eastern Indian Ocean: A 2000 kyr planktic faunal and isotope record from DSDP site 214

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-38

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Dhingra, Hitesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Eastern Indian Ocean; Middle Pleistocene transition; Oxygen and carbon isotopes; Palaeoclimate; Planktic fauna

Indexed keywords

ECCENTRICITY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 2342425957     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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