Calcareous nannofossil evidence for Marine Isotope Stage 31 (1Ma) in Core AND-1B, ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project (Antarctica)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 96-97, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-86

  Villa, Giuliana ^a   Persico, Davide ^a   Wise, Sherwood W ^b   Gadaleta, Alessia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Antarctica; Calcareous nannofossil; MIS 31; Palaeoclimate; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANDRILL; ANTARCTICA; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; MIS-31; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ISOTOPES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CRETACEOUS; DIATOM; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE SHELF; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR FRONT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REWORKING; SPICULE; SPONGE; SURFACE WATER; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84866417632     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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