A marine diatom record from the Amundsen Sea - Insights into oceanographic and climatic response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 92-93, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-51

  Konfirst, Matthew A ^a   Scherer, Reed P ^a   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Amundsen Sea; Mid Pleistocene transition; Southern Ocean diatoms; West Antarctic ice sheet

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRYOSPHERE; DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; FRAGILARIOPSIS KERGUELENSIS; NITZSCHIA ALBA; THALASSIOSIRA; THALASSIOTHRIX ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861982076     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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