Foraminifer isotope study of the Pleistocene Labrador Sea, northwest North Atlantic (IODP Sites 1302/03 and 1305), with emphasis on paleoceanographical differences between its "inner" and "outer" basins

Marine Geology

Volumn 279, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 188-198

  Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   De Vernal, Anne ^a   McKay, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraminifers; IODP; Isotope stratigraphy; Labrador Sea; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DEEPWATER; DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOWS; FORAMINIFERS; GLACIAL STAGES; GREENLAND; IODP; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC RECORD; LABRADOR SEA; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PLANKTIC AND BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; PRODUCTION RATES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SITE-SPECIFIC; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WINTER COOLING;

FLOW OF WATER; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ISOTOPES;

AMPLITUDE; CONVECTION; COOLING; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; LABRADOR SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78650821985     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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