Neogene history of the West Pacific Warm Pool, Kuroshio and Leeuwin currents

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gallagher, Stephen J ^a   Wallace, Malcolm W ^a   Li, Chung Leong ^a   Kinna, Belinda ^a   Bye, John T ^a   Akimoto, Kazumi ^b   Torii, Masayuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; GYRE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THROUGHFLOW; WARM POOL; WARM WATER;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; LEEUWIN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASTEROROTALIA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 67649205244     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001660     Document Type: Article

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