Molecular isotopic and dinoflagellate evidence for Late Holocene freshening of the Black Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 426-434

  van der Meer, Marcel T J ^a   Sangiorgi, Francesca ^b   Baas, Marianne ^a   Brinkhuis, Henk ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

alkenones; Black Sea; compound specific hydrogen isotopes; organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; paleosalinity

Indexed keywords

PALEOSALINITY; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; MOLECULES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKENONE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BOTTOM WATER; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; FRESHWATER INPUT; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOSALINITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

BLACK SEA; BOSPORUS STRAIT; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 39549120681     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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