Hydrological variability in Florida Straits during Marine Isotope Stage 5 cold events

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bahr, André ^a,b   Nürnberg, Dirk ^a   Schönfeld, Joachim ^a   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOC; Florida Straits; Globorotalia crassaformis; Mg Ca paleothermometry; MIS 5; subtropical gyre

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885866957     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002015     Document Type: Article

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