A major change in monsoon-driven productivity in the tropical Indian Ocean during ca 1.2-0.9 Myr: Foraminiferal faunal and stable isotope data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 234-245

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Sundar Raj, M ^a   Mohan, K ^a   De, Soma ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DSDP 214 and 219; Faunal and isotope data; Tropical Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEEP SEA; DOMINANCE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MONSOON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EPISTOMINELLA EXIGUA; FORAMINIFERA; GAVELINOPSIS LOBATULUS; GLOBOCASSIDULINA SUBGLOBOSA; NUTTALLIDES; ORIDORSALIS UMBONATUS; PLEUROSTOMELLA; STILOSTOMELLA; UVIGERINA HISPIDOCOSTATA;

EID: 42149180453     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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