Paleoenvironmental change in the middle Okinawa Trough since the last deglaciation: Evidence from the sedimentation rate and planktonic foraminiferal record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 243, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 378-393

  Xiang, Rong ^a   Sun, Youbin ^b   Li, Tiegang ^c   Oppo, Delia W ^d   Chen, Muhong ^a   Zheng, Fan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asia Monsoon; Holocene; Kuroshio Current; Last deglaciation; Millennial scale climate changes; Okinawa Trough; Oxygen isotope; Planktonic foraminifera; Sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

EAST CHINA SEA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YELLOW SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33845589492     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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