El Nino-Southern Oscillation signal associated with middle Holocene climate change in intercorrelated terrestrial and marine sediment cores, North Island, New Zealand

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 653-656

  Gomez, Basil ^a   Carter, Lionel ^b   Trustrum, Noel A ^c   Palmer, Alan S ^d   Roberts, Andrew ^e  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Landsliding; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; SYNCHRONOUS TEXTURAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDSLIDING; NEW ZEALAND; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OSCILLATIONS; SEDIMENTS; SIGNALING; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; TEXTURES; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT CORE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FLOODPLAIN; LANDSLIDE; MARINE SEDIMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 4344627621     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20720.1     Document Type: Article

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