Paleoceanography of the southern Agulhas Plateau during the last 150 ka: Inferences from benthic foraminiferal assemblages and multispecies epifaunal carbon isotopes

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Diz, Paula ^a   Hall, Ian R ^a   Zahn, Rainer ^b   Molyneux, Elizabeth G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OCEANIC FRONT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR;

AGULHAS PLATEAU; INDIAN OCEAN;

EPISTOMINELLA EXIGUA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 39549118774     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001511     Document Type: Article

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