Glacial Southern Ocean freshening at the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 345-348, Issue , 2012, Pages 194-202

  Rodríguez Sanz, Laura ^a   Graham Mortyn, P ^a,b   Martínez Garcia, Alfredo ^c   Rosell Melé, Antoni ^a,d   Hall, Ian R ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Middle Pleistocene Transition; Southern Ocean stratification

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE TRANSITION; GLACIAL STAGES; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HYDROGRAPHIC CHANGES; ICE VOLUMES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN; UPPER WATER COLUMN;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEAWATER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORAMINIFERA; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERGLACIAL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLEISTOCENE; SEAWATER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84864040620     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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