Late Quaternary paleoceanography deduced from coccolith assemblages in a piston core recovered off the central Japan coast

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 52, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 277-297

  Aizawa, Chieko ^a   Oba, Tadamichi ^a   Okada, Hisatake ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcareous nannofossils; Late Quaternary; northwestern Pacific; paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

FORAMINIFERA; UMBELLOSPHAERA;

EID: 4143112564     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.05.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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