A first look at past sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Indian Ocean from Mg/Ca in foraminifera

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Saraswat, Rajeev ^a   Nigam, R ^a   Weldeab, S ^b,c   Mackensen, A ^d   Naidu, P D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COOLING/WARMING EVENTS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL SPECIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

FORAMINIFERA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 32644436259     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024093     Document Type: Article

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