Abrupt changes in high-latitude nutrient supply to the Atlantic during the last glacial cycle

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-126

  Hendry, K R ^a,b   Robinson, L F ^a,c   Meredith, M P ^d   Mulitza, S ^e   Chiessi, C M ^f   Arz, H ^g  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON EXPORT; DEGLACIATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOW LATITUDES; NUTRIENT COMPOSITION; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SILICIC ACIDS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; WATER FORMATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; STREAM FLOW;

NUTRIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; HEINRICH EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SILICIC ACID; THERMOCLINE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84858133415     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32779.1     Document Type: Article

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