The Holocene onset in the southwestern South Atlantic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 374, Issue , 2013, Pages 164-172

  Pivel, M A G ^a,b   Santarosa, A C A ^a,b   Toledo, F A L ^a,b   Costa, K B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Praça do Oceanográfico   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Continental Margin; Late Quaternary; Oxygen isotopes; Paleosalinity; Paleotemperature; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND EROSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH BRAZIL BIGHT;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84875078238     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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