Contrasting seasonal fluxes of planktonic foraminifera and impacts on paleothermometry in the Mozambique Channel upstream of the Agulhas Current

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Fallet, Ulrike ^a   Brummer, Geert Jan ^a   Zinke, Jens ^a,b   Vogels, Sanne ^a,b   Ridderinkhof, Herman ^a  

^a Department of Marine Geology Royal NIOZ ^*  (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; TIME SERIES;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL;

FORAMINIFERA; TOBRILUS;

EID: 78650104662     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001942     Document Type: Article

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