Glacial paleoceanography off the mouth of the Mekong River, southern South China Sea, during the last 500ka

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 563-572

  Li, Qianyu ^a,b   Zheng, Fan ^c   Chen, Muhong ^c   Xiang, Rong ^c   Qiao, Peijun ^a   Shao, Lei ^a   Cheng, Xinrong ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Glacial cycles; Late Pleistocene Holocene; Mekong River mouth; Monsoons; Planktonic foraminifera; South China Sea; Thermocline

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CORE ANALYSIS; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; THERMOCLINE;

MEKONG RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 77952292045     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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