Comparison of organic (UK'37, TEXH 86, LDI) and faunal proxies (foraminiferal assemblages) for reconstruction of late Quaternary sea surface temperature variability from offshore southeastern Australia

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 377-387

  Lopes Dos Santos, Raquel A ^a,b   Spooner, Michelle I ^c   Barrows, Timothy T ^e   De Deckker, Patrick ^c,d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Planet Gas Limited   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

foraminiferal assemblages; LDI index; SE Australia; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGLACIATION; FORAMINIFERA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84880947621     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20035     Document Type: Article

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