Palaeoceanographic changes in the North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MIS 31-19) as inferred from planktonic foraminiferal and calcium carbonate records

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 140-159

  Hernández Almeida, Iván ^a,b   Sierro, Francisco Javier ^a   Flores, José Abel ^a   Cacho, Isabel ^c   Filippelli, Gabriel Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON ISOTOPE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BOREAS; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84871621768     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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