Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Incarbona, Alessandro ^a   Martrat, Belen ^b   Stefano, Enrico Di ^a   Grimalt, Joan O ^b   Pelosi, Nicola ^c   Patti, Bernardo ^c   Tranchida, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALKENONE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COCCOLITH; DEEP WATER; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; ICEBERG; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; MIXING; NANOFOSSIL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLAR REGION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); IBERIAN MARGIN;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FLORISPHAERA PROFUNDA; GEPHYROCAPSA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77952563108     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001709     Document Type: Article

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