A highly productive Subarctic Atlantic during the Last Interglacial and the role of diatoms

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1015-1018

  Romero, O E ^a   Swann, G E A ^b   Hodell, D A ^c   Helmke, P ^d   Rey, D ^e   Rubio, B ^e  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; DIATOM PRODUCTION; HIGH RATE; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT POOLS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; SILICIC ACIDS; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBARCTIC FRONT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA;

NUTRIENTS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DIATOM; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; SILICIC ACID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; THALASSIOTHRIX LONGISSIMA;

EID: 84857495556     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32454.1     Document Type: Article

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