Controls on carbonate and terrigenous deposition in the incipient Benguela upwelling system during the middle to the late Miocene (ODP Sites 1085 and 1087)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 515-530

  Kastanja, Mia Maria ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^b   Henrich, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Benguela upwelling; Clay mineralogy; Miocene; Silt analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; MIOCENE; SURFACE WATER; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; ANGOLA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA; CAPE BASIN; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33751050408     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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