Late glacial to Holocene planktic foraminifera bioevents and climatic record in the South Adriatic Sea

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 808-821

  Siani, Giuseppe ^a   Paterne, Martine ^b   Colin, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

AMS 14C; Centennial climatic changes; Planktonic foraminifera; South Adriatic; SST

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78650500291     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1360     Document Type: Article

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