Micropaleontological parameters as proxies of late Miocene surface water properties and paleoclimate in Gavdos Island, eastern Mediterranean

Geodiversitas

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 379-399

  Antonarakou, Asslmina ^a   Drinia, Hara ^a   Tsaparas, Nikolaos ^a   Dermitzakis, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Early late Miocene; Gavdos Island; Greece; Paleobiogeography; Paleoclimate; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES TRILOBUS; GLOBOTURBOROTALITA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA ACOSTAENSIS;

EID: 35148832103     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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