Organic geochemical evidence of Late Glacial-Holocene climate instability in the North Aegean Sea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Gogou, Alexandra ^a   Bouloubassi, Ioanna ^b   Lykousis, Vasilios ^a   Arnaboldi, Michela ^c   Gaitani, Praxia ^a,d   Meyers, Philip A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

13Corg; 15Ntotal; Alkenone sea surface temperatures; Biomarker molecules; Organic matter; S1 sapropel

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 36048950313     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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