Centennial scale benthic foraminiferal record of late Holocene oceanographic variability in Disko Bugt, West Greenland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2815-2826

  Perner, K ^a   Moros, M ^a,b   Lloyd, J M ^c   Kuijpers, A ^d   Telford, R J ^b,e   Harff, J ^a,f  

^a Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende   (Germany)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; East Greenland Current; Irminger Current; Late Holocene; NAO; West Greenland Current

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; IRMINGER CURRENT; LATE HOLOCENE; NAO; WEST GREENLAND CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLD WATER; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COOLING; HOLOCENE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SALINITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; DISKO BAY; GREENLAND;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80051880461     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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