Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of climatic and oceanographic changes during the past 40 kyr in the Santa Barbara Basin, southern California

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Pospelova, Vera ^a   Pedersen, Thomas F ^a   de Vernal, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; ECHINIDINIUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM AMERICANUM; SELENOPEMPHIX;

EID: 33751274185     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001251     Document Type: Article

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