High Arabian Sea productivity conditions during MIS 13-odd monsoon event or intensified overturning circulation at the end of the Mid-Pleistocene transition?

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-76

  Ziegler, M ^a   Lourens, L J ^a   Tuenter, E ^b   Reichart, G J ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP SEA; DISSOLUTION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER DEPTH;

ANTARCTICA; ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84860389342     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-63-2010     Document Type: Article

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