Late Quaternary millennial-scale variability in pelagic aragonite preservation off Somalia

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 171-183

  Klöcker, Ralph ^a   Ganssen, Gerald ^b   Jung, Simon J A ^b   Kroon, Dick ^b   Henrich, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabian sea; aragonite dissolution; Late Quaternary; Limacina inflata; pteropods; Somali basin

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARAGONITE; BARIUM; DEEP WATER; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MOLLUSC; MONSOON; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; QUATERNARY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENT CORE;

AFRICA; ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOMALIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

LIMACINA INFLATA; PTEROPODA;

EID: 33747791452     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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