Mg/Ca of Globorotalia inflata as a recorder of permanent thermocline temperatures in the South Atlantic

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Groeneveld, Jeroen ^a,b   Chiessi, Cristiano M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CALCIUM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MAGNESIUM; OCEANIC FRONT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SAMPLING; THERMOCLINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA;

EID: 79955069400     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001940     Document Type: Article

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