Planktonic foraminiferal records of East Asia monsoon changes in the southern South China Sea during the last 40,000 years

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Xiang, Rong ^a   Chen, Muhong ^a   Li, Qianyu ^b   Liu, Jianguo ^a   Zhang, Lanlan ^a   Lu, Jun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

East Asia winter monsoon; Heinrich events; Last glacial; Planktonic foraminifers; Pulleniatina minimum event; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL; MONSOON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA QUINQUELOBA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; PULLENIATINA MINIMUM; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 70349091006     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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