Eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue during the Last Glacial Maximum as seen from alkenone paleothermometry

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a   Kienast, Markus ^a   Normandeau, Claire ^a   Herbert, Timothy D ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; COOLING; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEANIC CURRENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77952366694     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001781     Document Type: Article

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