The reef builder gastropod Dendropoma petreaum - A proxy of short and long term climatic events in the Eastern Mediterranean

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4376-4383

  Sisma Ventura, Guy ^a   Guzner, Barak ^a   Yam, Ruth ^a   Fine, Maoz ^b   Shemesh, Aldo ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROPOD; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DENDROPOMA; DENDROPOMA PETRAEUM; GASTROPODA; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 67449147135     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.04.037     Document Type: Article

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