High-resolution opal records from the eastern tropical Pacific provide evidence for silicic acid leakage from HNLC regions during glacial periods

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1112-1121

  Arellano Torres, Elsa ^a   Pichevin, Laetitia E ^a   Ganeshram, Raja S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Eastern tropical Pacific; Last glacial; Opal; Productivity; Silicic acid

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC SILICA; CARBON CYCLES; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; ME-XICO; NEW HIGH; NICARAGUA; NORTH PACIFIC; OPAL; PARTICULATE CARBON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAIN RATES; REGIONAL PATTERN; SILICIC ACIDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL; ISOTOPES; PRODUCTIVITY; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SILICA; SILICON; TROPICS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ALGA; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIATOM; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; OPAL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SILICIC ACID;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NICARAGUA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79955722748     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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