Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of oceanographic conditions and terrigenous input in the NW African upwelling region

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 35-55

  Holzwarth, Ulrike ^a   Esper, Oliver ^b   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

accumulation rates; aeolian dust; Cape Blanc; Cape Ghir; Cape Yubi; organic walled dinocysts; river discharge; upwelling

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GEOACCUMULATION; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

CAPE BLANC; CAPE GHIR; CAPE JUBY; GUELMIM-ES SMARA; MOROCCO; SOUSS-MASSA-DRAA;

BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; GYMNODINIUM CATENATUM; GYMNODINIUM NOLLERI; IMPAGIDINIUM; LINGULODINIUM MACHAEROPHORUM; NEMATOSPHAEROPSIS LABYRINTHUS; OPERCULODINIUM CENTROCARPUM; POLYKRIKOS KOFOIDI; POLYKRIKOS SCHWARTZII; PROTOPERIDINIUM STELLATUM; SELENOPEMPHIX;

EID: 75549084480     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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