Coccolithophore paleoproductivity and ecology response to deglacial and Holocene changes in the Azores Current System

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schwab, C ^a   Kinkel, H ^a   Weinelt, M ^a   Repschlger, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; ALKENONE; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; COCCOLITH; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GYRE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC CARBON; OVERTURN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; WESTERLY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AZORES CURRENT;

EID: 84865429816     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002281     Document Type: Article

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