Pliocene climate change of the Southwest Pacific and the impact of ocean gateways

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 117-124

  Karas, Cyrus ^a,b   Nürnberg, Dirk ^a   Tiedemann, Ralf ^c   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foraminiferal Mg Ca; Ocean gateways; Pliocene; Southwest Pacific

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DEEP SEA DRILLING; FORAMINIFERAL MG/CA; FRONTAL SYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HEAT TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN GATEWAY; PACIFIC WARM POOL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBSURFACE LEVELS; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PROTOZOA; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MODE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLIOCENE; SUBANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARM POOL;

EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 78650296293     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.028     Document Type: Article

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