Central Arctic paleoceanography for the last 50kyr based on ostracode faunal assemblages

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 88-89, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-76

  Poirier, Robert K ^a   Cronin, Thomas M ^a   Briggs, William M ^b,d   Lockwood, Rowan ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d NAMPRO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age models; Arctic Ocean; Dansgaard Oeschger; Heinrich; MIS 1; MIS 2; MIS 3; Ostracode; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ACETABULASTOMA; AMPHIPODA; CYTHEROPTERON; HENRYHOWELLA; KRITHE; OSTRACODA; POLYCOPE;

EID: 84860300486     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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