Oceanographic changes through the last millennium off North Iceland: Temperature and salinity reconstructions based on foraminifera and stable isotopes

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 84-85, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-73

  Knudsen, Karen Luise ^a   Eiríksson, Jón ^b   Bartels Jónsdóttir, Helga Bára ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Benthic and planktonic foraminifera; Last millennium; North Icelandic shelf; Palaeoceanography; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIATOM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84855176689     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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