No-analog planktonic foraminiferal faunas in the glacial southern South China Sea: Implications for the magnitude of glacial cooling in the western Pacific warm pool

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-90

  Steinke, Stephan ^a   Yu, Pai Sen ^b   Kucera, Michal ^c   Chen, Min Te ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Last Glacial Maximum; palaeotemperature; planktonic foraminifera; South China Sea; transfer functions

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAUNA; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 37249000283     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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