Suborbital-scale surface and deep water records in the subtropical North Atlantic: Implications on thermohaline overturn

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2976-2987

  Billups, Katharina ^a   Rabideaux, Nathan ^b   Stoffel, Jared ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Millennial scale; Paleoceanography; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONCOMITANT DECREASE; DEEP WATER; DEEP-WATER FLOW; DRIVING FORCES; FORAMINIFERA; FOURTH HARMONICS; ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MILLENNIAL-SCALE; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RAPID CHANGES; SEA SURFACES; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; SPECTRAL POWER; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMOHALINE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

DEEPWATER DRILLING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; NAVIGATION; SEAWATER; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRECESSION; STABLE ISOTOPE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80052930472     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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