Recent changes in bottom water oxygenation and temperature in the gulf of st. Lawrence: Micropaleontological and geochemical evidence

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1319-1329

  Genovesi, Linda ^a   de Vernal, Anne ^a   Thibodeau, Benoît ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   Mucci, Alfonso ^b   Gilbert, Denis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESPIRATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

BRIZALINA SUBAENARIENSIS; BULIMINA EXILIS; CASSIDULINA LAEVIGATA; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; NONIONELLINA LABRADORICA; ORIDORSALIS UMBONATUS;

EID: 79958825247     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.4.1319     Document Type: Article

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