Latitudinal and downcore (0-750 ka) changes in n-alkane chain lengths in the eastern equatorial Pacific

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 573-582

  Horikawa, Keiji ^a,b,c   Murayama, Masafumi ^b   Minagawa, Masao ^a   Kato, Yoshihisa ^d   Sagawa, Takuya ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eastern equatorial Pacific; Mid Pleistocene Transition; MIS 13; N alkane; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ARID REGION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRADE WIND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77952288284     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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