Selective preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as a tool to quantify past net primary production and bottom water oxygen concentrations

Marine Geology

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 109-126

  Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a   Bockelmann, Frank ^a   Holzwarth, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dinoflagellate cysts; early diagenesis; organic matter; oxygen; preservation

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS; EARLY DIGENESIS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; ORGANIC MATTER;

CHLOROPHYLL; DEGRADATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL A; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MARINE SEDIMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PRESERVATION;

AFRICAN MARGIN [ATLANTIC OCEAN]; ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); ATLANTIC SECTOR; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33846837653     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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