Pronounced mid-Pleistocene southward shift of the Polar Front in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 21-22, 2007, Pages 2432-2442

  Flores, José Abel ^a   Sierro, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atlantic sector; Coccolithophores; Micropaleontology; Paleoceanography; Pleistocene; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBONATES; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC SECTOR; FRONTAL SYSTEM; POLAR FRONT ZONE (PFZ); SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBANTARCTIC ZONE (SAZ);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CALCIDISCUS LEPTOPORUS; COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; HAPTOPHYCEAE; HELICOSPHAERA CARTERI; SYRACOSPHAERA;

EID: 36249009887     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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