Sea surface temperature reconstruction for the middle Okinawa Trough during the last glacial-interglacial cycle using C37 unsaturated alkenones

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 246, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 440-453

  Zhou, Houyun ^a,c   Li, Tiegang ^b   Jia, Guodong ^a   Zhu, Zhaoyu ^a   Chi, Baoquan ^a,d   Cao, Qiyuan ^b   Sun, Rongtao ^b   Peng, Ping'an ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Glacial interglacial variations; Kuroshio Current; Paleoceanography; SST; U37K index

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CORE ANALYSIS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI;

EID: 33947160024     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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