Calcareous plankton response to orbital and millennial-scale climate changes across the Middle Pleistocene in the western Mediterranean

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 392, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-116

  Girone, Angela ^a   Maiorano, Patrizia ^a   Marino, Maria ^a   Kucera, Michal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcareous plankton; Heinrich type events; Middle Pleistocene; Paleoceanography; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COCCOLITH; COOLING; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY; VOLUME;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84885110613     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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