Late Quaternary climatic and oceanographic changes in the Northeast Pacific as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 200-212

  Price, Andrea M ^a   Mertens, Kenneth N ^b   Pospelova, Vera ^a   Pedersen, Thomas F ^a   Ganeshram, Raja S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dansgaard Oeschger events; dinoflagellate cyst; Gulf of California; late Quaternary climate change; upwelling; younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PRESERVATION; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UPWELLING;

GUAYMAS BASIN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BITECTATODINIUM SPONGIUM; BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; OPERCULODINIUM CENTROCARPUM; QUINQUECUSPIS CONCRETA; SPINIFERITES;

EID: 84876705026     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20019     Document Type: Article

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