Evolution of Eastern Pacific Warm Pool and upwelling processes since the middle Miocene based on analysis of radiolarian assemblages: Response to Indonesian and Central American Seaways

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 280, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 469-479

  Kamikuri, Shin ichi ^a   Motoyama, Isao ^a   Nishi, Hiroshi ^b   Iwai, Masao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eastern equatorial Pacific; Eastern Pacific Warm Pool; Indonesian and Central American Seaways; Northern Equatorial Countercurrent; Radiolarian assemblages

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; INFLOW; LA NINA; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLARIA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAWATER; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WARM POOL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ZANCLEA;

EID: 69049108605     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.034     Document Type: Article

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