Variability in the vertical structure of the water column and paleoproductivity reconstruction in the central-western Mediterranean during the Late Pleistocene

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-41

  Incarbona, A ^a   Di Stefano, E ^a   Sprovieri, R ^a   Bonomo, S ^a   Censi, P ^b   Dinares Turell J ^c   Spoto, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

calcareous nannofossils; central mediterranean; foraminifera; Late Pleistocene; paleoproductivity

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; DUST; EROSION; INTERGLACIAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NANOFOSSIL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLANKTON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOCLINE; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

AFRICA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 52349102756     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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