Deep-sea scleractinian coral age and depth distributions in the northwest Atlantic for the last 225,000 years

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 371-391

  Robinson, Laura F ^a   Adkins, Jess F ^c   Scheirer, Daniel S ^b   Fernandez, Diego P ^c   Gagnon, Alexander ^c   Waller, Rhian G ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CaltechMS 100 23 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CORAL; DEEP SEA; FOSSIL; LAST GLACIAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAMOUNT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); MANNING SEAMOUNT; MUIR SEAMOUNT; NEW ENGLAND SEAMOUNTS;

ANTHOZOA; DESMOPHYLLUM DIANTHUS; DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 38349071512     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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