Carbon isotope records reveal precise timing of enhanced Southern Ocean upwelling during the last deglaciation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Siani, Giuseppe ^a   Michel, Elisabeth ^b   De Pol Holz, Ricardo ^c   Devries, Tim ^d   Lamy, Frank ^e   Carel, Mélanie ^a   Isguder, Gulay ^b   Dewilde, Fabien ^b   Lourantou, Anna ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c University of Concepción   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; CARBON 14;

BENTHOS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FORAMINIFERA; LAST DEGLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; OSCILLATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY; VOLCANIC ASH;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84889263264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3758     Document Type: Article

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