Climatic cycles as expressed in sediments of the PROMESS1 borehole PRAD1-2, central Adriatic, for the last 370 ka: 2. Paleoenvironmental evolution

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Piva, Andrea ^a   Asioli, Alessandra ^a   Andersen, Nils ^b   Grimalt, Joan O ^c   Schneider, Ralph R ^b   Trincardi, Fabio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adriatic; Alkenone derived SST; Foraminifera; Late Quaternary; Oxygen stable isotope; Paleoenvironment

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649114374     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001785     Document Type: Article

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