Deglacial diatom productivity and surface ocean properties over the bermuda rise, northeast sargasso sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gil, Isabelle M ^a,b,c   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^b   Abrantes, Fatima G ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIATOM; HEINRICH EVENT; ICEBERG; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA RISE; SARGASSO SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHAETOCEROS;

EID: 77952358173     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001729     Document Type: Article

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