Holocene oceanographic and glacial changes recorded in Maxwell Bay, West Antarctica

Marine Geology

Volumn 326-328, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-79

  Majewski, Wojciech ^a   Wellner, Julia S ^b   Szczuciński, Witold ^c   Anderson, John B ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraminiferal assemblages; Glacial influence; Holocene; Sediments; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COLLINS; COMPOSITE SECTIONS; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; GLACIAL INFLUENCE; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENES; ICE-CAPS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOCAL CLIMATE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NEARSHORES; OPEN OCEAN; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; LEAD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORAMINIFERA; GEOACCUMULATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATER; TURBIDITY;

ANTARCTICA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; MAXWELL BAY; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

CASSIDULINOIDES PARKERIANUS; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBOCASSIDULINA BIORA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84868202150     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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