Holocene thermal maximum off North Iceland: Evidence from benthic and planktonic foraminifera in the 8600-5200 cal year BP time slice

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 120-142

  Knudsen, K L ^a   Sondergaard M K B ^a   Eiriksson J ^b   Jiang, H ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

8.2 kyr event; Foraminifera; Holocene thermal maximum; North Atlantic; Palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HOLOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; POLAR FRONT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; EAST ICELANDIC CURRENT; IRMINGER CURRENT; NORTH ICELANDIC SHELF; NORWEGIAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 40849137848     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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