Seasonal variations in planktonic foraminiferal flux and oxygen isotopic composition in the western North Pacific: Implications for paleoceanographic reconstruction

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-20

  Sagawa, Takuya ^a   Kuroyanagi, Azumi ^b   Irino, Tomohisa ^c   Kuwae, Michinobu ^a   Kawahata, Hodaka ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Northwestern North Pacific; Oxygen isotopes; Planktonic foraminifera; Sediment traps

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT TRAP; SHELL; STRATIFICATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84877883011     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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