The last glacial-interglacial transition and dinoflagellate cysts in the western Mediterranean Sea

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-109

  Rouis Zargouni, Imene ^a,b   Turon, Jean Louis ^b   Londeix, Laurent ^b   Kallel, Néjib ^a   Essallami, Latifa ^a  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

B lling Aller d; Dinoflagellate cysts; Nematosphaeropsis labyrinthus; Western Mediterranean; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALBORAN SEA; GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BITECTATODINIUM TEPIKIENSE; DINOPHYCEAE; IMPAGIDINIUM ACULEATUM; NEMATOSPHAEROPSIS LABYRINTHUS; SPINIFERITES ELONGATUS; SPINIFERITES MIRABILIS;

EID: 84858865538     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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