A deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific thermocline during the early Pliocene warm period

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 152-161

  Ford, Heather L ^a   Ravelo, A Christina ^a   Hovan, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Equatorial Pacific; Foraminiferal Mg Ca; Pliocene; Thermocline

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; FORAMINIFERAL MG/CA; GLOBAL EFFECTS; HEAT BUDGET; LOW LATITUDES; OCEANOGRAPHIC CIRCULATION; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOURCE WATERS; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; UPWELLING REGION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

STREAM FLOW;

FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLIOCENE; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

GLOBOROTALIA TUMIDA;

EID: 84867116370     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.027     Document Type: Article

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