Seasonal and interannual changes of planktic foraminiferal fluxes in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) and their implications for paleoceanographic studies: Two 12-year sediment trap records

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-40

  Rigual Hernández, Andrés S ^a   Sierro, Francisco J ^a   Bárcena, María A ^a   Flores, José A ^a   Heussner, Serge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Core tops; NW Mediterranean; Planktic foraminifers; Sediment traps

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; COLD CONDITIONS; CORE-TOP SAMPLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAMINIFERS; GULF OF LION; INTERANNUAL; MOORING LINE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN BASINS; NW MEDITERRANEAN; OCEANOGRAPHIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC STUDIES; RHONE RIVER; SAMPLING SITE; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SPRING BLOOMS; UNIMODAL; WATER DEPTH;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MOORING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENT TRAPS;

FLUX MEASUREMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRAP; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RHONE RIVER;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA; GLOBOROTALIA TRUNCATULINOIDES; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84861850626     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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