Millennial-scale variations in hydrography and biogeochemistry in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the last 100 kyr

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 210-223

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a   Kienast, Markus ^a   Kienast, Stephanie ^a   Normandeau, Claire ^a   Calvert, Stephen E ^b   Herbert, Timothy D ^c   Mix, Alan ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; DENITRIFICATION RATE; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERMEDIATE CIRCULATION; LAST GLACIAL; LOW LATITUDES; NITROGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; OXYGEN SOLUBILITY; POLAR CLIMATES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENT CORE; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE PRODUCTIVITY; TIME-SCALES; WATER COLUMNS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

SEAWATER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; HEINRICH EVENT; HYDROGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXIDANT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOLUBILITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WATER; VENTILATION; WATER COLUMN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 78650521990     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

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