Western Pacific thermocline structure and the Pacific marine Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Last Glacial Maximum

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 363, Issue , 2013, Pages 133-143

  Leech, Peter J ^a   Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^a   Zhang, Rong ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertropical Convergence Zone; Last Glacial Maximum; Oxygen isotopes; Planktonic foraminifera; Western tropical pacific

Indexed keywords

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; WESTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC;

ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; STREAM FLOW;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84872848562     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.026     Document Type: Article

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