Cold-water coral growth in the Alboran Sea related to high productivity during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

Marine Geology

Volumn 339, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-82

  Fink, Hiske G ^a   Wienberg, Claudia ^a   De Pol Holz, Ricardo ^b   Wintersteller, Paul ^a   Hebbeln, Dierk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alboran Sea; Cold water corals; Holocene; Melilla Coral Province; Productivity; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ALBORAN SEA; COLD-WATER CORALS; HOLOCENES; MELILLA CORAL PROVINCE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOGRAPHY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; COLD WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORAL REEF; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECOLONIZATION; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; MADREPORA OCULATA;

EID: 84878418684     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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