Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Martínez Garcia, Alfredo ^a   Rosell Melé, Antoni ^a,b   Geibert, Walter ^c,d,e   Gersonde, Rainer ^e   Masqué, Pere ^a   Gaspari, Vania ^f   Barbante, Carlo ^f,g  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; IRON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67649210320     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001657     Document Type: Article

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