The last five glacial-interglacial transitions: A high-resolution 450,000-year record from the subantarctic Atlantic

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Cortese, G ^a   Abelmann, A ^a   Gersonde, R ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOLARIA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 39749119839     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001457     Document Type: Article

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