Impact of abrupt climate change in the tropical southeast Atlantic during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hessler, Ines ^a   Steinke, Stephan ^a   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^b   Dupont, Lydie ^a   Wefer, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLD WATER; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; MAGNESIUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OVERTURN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; TELECONNECTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPWELLING;

ANGOLA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 80054919680     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002118     Document Type: Article

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