Mid- to late-Holocene paleoceanographic changes on the southeastern Brazilian shelf based on grain size records

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 863-875

  Gyllencreutz, R ^a   Mahiques, M M ^b   Alves, D V P ^b   Wainer, I K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; ENSO; grain size; ITCZ; mid Holocene; R o de la Plata

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET;

BRAZIL; RIO PARAIBA DO SUL;

EID: 77956066829     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610365936     Document Type: Article

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