Glacial-interglacial ocean climate variability from planktonic foraminifera during the Mid-Pleistocene transition in the temperate Southwest Pacific, ODP Site 1123

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 202-229

  Crundwell, Martin ^a   Scott, George ^a   Naish, Tim ^a,b   Carter, Lionel ^b,c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Climate forcing; Deglacial; Glacial; Interglacial; Mid Pleistocene transition; Ocean climate; Planktonic foraminifera; Southern hemisphere; Southwest Pacific; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 41049113138     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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