Distribution of large Emiliania huxleyi in the Central and Northeast Atlantic as a tracer of surface ocean dynamics during the last 25,000years

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 53-66

  Flores, José Abel ^a   Colmenero Hidalgo, Elena ^a   Mejía Molina, Alejandra E ^a   Baumann, Karl Heinz ^b   Henderiks, Jorijntje ^c   Larsson, Kristina ^c   Prabhu, C N ^d   Sierro, Francisco J ^a   Rodrigues, Teresa ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Biogeography; Biostratigraphy; Coccolithophores; Deglaciation; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; Mediterranean; Paleoceanography; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; COCCOLITH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TRACER; TROPICAL REGION; TYPE SPECIMEN; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77956232416     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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