Variations in coccolithophorid production in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific at ODP Site 1240 over the last seven glacial-interglacial cycles

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-69

  López Otálvaro, Gatsby Emperatriz ^a   Flores, José Abel ^a   Sierro, Francisco Javier ^a   Cacho, Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coccolith carbonate; Coccolithophores; Eastern Equatorial Pacific; ENSO; Nannofossil accumulation rate (NAR); Paleoproductivity; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; COCCOLITH; DOMINANCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHOTIC ZONE; PLEISTOCENE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

FLORISPHAERA PROFUNDA; GEPHYROCAPSA CARIBBEANICA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; NOELAERHABDACEAE;

EID: 52049097750     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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