Reconstruction of paleoceanography off NW Africa during the last 40,000 years: Influence of local and regional factors on sediment accumulation

Marine Geology

Volumn 207, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 209-224

  Kuhlmann, H ^a   Freudenthal, T ^a   Helmke, P ^a   Meggers, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; coastal upwelling; Holocene; last glacial; sea level; sediment accumulation rates

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES (AR); CORE LOGGING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ZONAL PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PRODUCTIVITY; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 3042738498     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.03.017     Document Type: Article

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