Warm-water mollusc assemblages from northern Chile (Mejillones Peninsula): New evidence for permanent El Niño-like conditions during Pliocene warmth?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1075-1084

  Ragaini, Luca ^a   Di Celma, Claudio ^b   Cantalamessa, Gino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; MEJILLONES PENINSULA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANOMIA PERUVIANA; ARGOPECTEN VENTRICOSUS; BULLA PUNCTULATA; CERITHIUM STERCUSMUSCARUM; CHLAMYS; CONCHOLEPAS; DOSINIA PONDEROSA; FUSINUS; HERMINESPINA MIRABILIS; MOLLUSCA; OLIVELLA; TURBO FLUCTUOSUS;

EID: 65449137582     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-039     Document Type: Article

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