Planktonic foraminifera from modern sediments reflect upwelling patterns off Iberia: Insights from a regional transfer function

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 135-164

  Salgueiro, Emília ^a,b   Voelker, Antje ^a   Abrantes, Fátima ^a   Meggers, Helge ^b   Pflaumann, Uwe ^c   Lončarić, Neven ^d   González Álvarez, Raquel ^e   Oliveira, Paulo ^f   Bartels Jónsdóttir, Helga B ^a,g   Moreno, João ^h   Wefer, Gerold ^b  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^f Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agraria e das Pescas   (Portugal)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Iberian margin; planktonic foraminifera; Sea Surface Temperature; transfer functions; upwelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MARGIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES TRILOBUS; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; TOBRILUS;

EID: 38849143164     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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