North Atlantic Current variability through marine isotope stage M2 (circa 3.3 Ma) during the mid-Pliocene

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  De Schepper, Stijn ^a   Head, Martin J ^b   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; MAGNESIUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CURRENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77952366696     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001725     Document Type: Article

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