Holocene temperature evolution of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in the Mg/Ca ratios of surface and thermocline dwelling planktonic foraminifers

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 234-243

  Farmer, Elizabeth J ^a   Chapman, Mark R ^a   Andrews, Julian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holocene; Mg Ca; North Atlantic; Palaeoceanography; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EVENT; COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; FORAMINIFERS; HOLOCENES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PISTON CORES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SURFACE-DWELLINGS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THERMAL CONTRASTS; UPPER WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

APARTMENT HOUSES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUILDINGS; CLIMATOLOGY; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); OCEANOGRAPHY;

STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MAGNESIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCLINE; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA;

EID: 80655124721     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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