Southwest Pacific Ocean response to a warming world: Using Mg/Ca, Zn/Ca, and Mn/Ca in foraminifera to track surface ocean water masses during the last deglaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 347-362

  Marr, Julene P ^a   Carter, Lionel ^a   Bostock, Helen C ^b   Bolton, Annette ^c   Smith, Euan ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Globigerina bulloides, Globigerinoides ruber; Mg Ca, Mn Ca, Ba Ca, Zn Ca; Southwest Pacific Ocean; stratification; surface ocean; temperature, nutrient

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; GYRE; HOLOCENE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAGNESIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTON; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WATER; UPPER OCEAN; WARMING; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZINC; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 84879486270     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20032     Document Type: Article

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