The potential of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts for the reconstruction of past sea-surface conditions in the Southern Ocean

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 185-212

  Esper, Oliver ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Late Quaternary; Modern Analogue Technique; Palaeotemperatures; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 36249017837     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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