Variable water column structure of the South Atlantic on glacial-interglacial time scales

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3379-3387

  Martínez Méndez, Gema ^a   Molyneux, Elizabeth G ^b   Hall, Ian R ^b   Zahn, Rainer ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VENTILATION;

AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DERIVED CARBONS; GLACIAL PERIOD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; WATER-MASS FORMATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 70450278815     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.022     Document Type: Article

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