30 000 years of productivity and salinity variations in the late Quaternary Cariaco Basin revealed by dinoflagellate cysts

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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 647-662

  Mertens, Kenneth Neil ^a   González, Catalina ^b   Delusina, Irina ^c   Louwye, Stephen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOSALINITY; PALYNOMORPH; PRODUCTIVITY; STRATIFICATION; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; LEJEUNECYSTA; LINGULODINIUM MACHAEROPHORUM; OPERCULODINIUM CENTROCARPUM; SELENOPEMPHIX; SPINIFERITES RAMOSUS;

EID: 73849108973     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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