Abrupt shoaling of the nutricline in response to massive freshwater flooding at the onset of the last interglacial sapropel event

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Grelaud, Michal ^a   Marino, Gianluca ^a   Ziveri, Patrizia ^a,b   Rohling, Eelco J ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; COCCOLITH; FLOODING; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHOTIC ZONE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAPROPEL; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STRATIFICATION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84865410462     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002288     Document Type: Article

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