Spatial reorganization in the equatorial divergence in the Eastern Tropical Pacific during the last 150 kyr

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a,b   Kienast, Markus ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON;

COVARIATION; DENITRIFICATION RATE; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; GLACIAL STAGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; INORGANIC NITRATE; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NITRATE CONSUMPTION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SPATIAL REORGANIZATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DENITRIFICATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80052204924     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048325     Document Type: Article

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