Link between oceanic heat transport, thermohaline circulation, and the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the early pliocene Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 319-322

  Billups, K ^a,c   Ravelo, A C ^a   Zachos, J C ^a   Norris, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SALINE SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE HYDROGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

TROPICS;

HEAT TRANSFER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PLIOCENE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879889174     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0319:LBOHTT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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