Surface water dynamics in the Reykjanes Ridge area during the Holocene as revealed by coccolith assemblages

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Balestra, Barbara ^a   Ziveri, Patrizia ^b,c   Baumann, Karl Heinz ^d   Troelstra, Simon ^c   Monechi, Simonetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coccoliths; Irminger Current; Paleoceanography; Planktonic proxies; Polar Front; Reykjanes Ridge

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; COCCOLITH; DIATOM; FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; POLAR FRONT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURFACE WATER; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; REYKJANES RIDGE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FORAMINIFERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77955593989     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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