Deep-sea paleoceanographic and surface productivity changes in the northwestern Arabian Sea driven by the Indian southwest monsoon during the last millennium

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-394

  Das, Moumita ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a   Anderson, David M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Last millennium; Northwestern Arabian Sea; Organic flux; Southwest monsoon

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DEEP SEA; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MONSOON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEAFLOOR; WIND;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33751236159     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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