Detrital input, productivity fluctuations, and water mass circulation in the westernmost Mediterranean Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Jimenez Espejo, F J ^a   Martinez Ruiz, F ^b   Rogerson, M ^c   Gonzalez Donoso J M ^d   Romero, O E ^b   Linares, D ^d   Sakamoto, T ^a   Gallego Torres, D ^e   Ruiz, J L Rueda ^d   Ortega Huertas, M ^e   Claros, J A Perez ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alboran front; Holocene last glacial maximum; ODP 975B; Paleoceanography; Paleoproductivity; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449131448     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002096     Document Type: Article

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