Early to mid-Pliocene environmentally constrained diatom assemblages from the AND-1B drillcore, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Stratigraphy

Volumn 7, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 207-227

  Winter, Diane ^a,c   Sjunneskog, Charlotte ^b   Harwood, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rhithron Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIATOM; DIATOMITE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUCAMPIA ANTARCTICA; FRAGILARIOPSIS CURTA; STELLARIMA; STELLARIMA MICROTRIAS; THALASSIONEMA NITZSCHIOIDES;

EID: 78149418838     PISSN: 1547139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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