Interplay between detrital and diagenetic processes since the last glacial maximum on the northwest Iberian continental shelf

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 507-520

  Mohamed, Kais Jacob ^a,b   Rey, Daniel ^a   Rubio, Belen ^a   Vilas, Federico ^a   Frederichs, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detrital input; Early diagenesis; Environmental magnetism; Iberian continental shelf; Paleoclimatic evolution; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN SHELF;

EID: 77952268321     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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