The late Pliocene Benguela upwelling status revisited by means of multiple temperature proxies

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 475-491

  Leduc, Guillaume ^a,e   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^a   Regenberg, Marcus ^a   Contoux, Camille ^b,c   Etourneau, Johan ^d   Schneider, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

late Pliocene; Mg Ca; sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL PATTERNS; LATE PLIOCENE; ORBITAL CONFIGURATION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKENONE; CALCIUM; GAMETOGENESIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MAGNESIUM; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WATER DEPTH;

ANGOLA; BENGUELA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES;

EID: 84897894737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004940     Document Type: Article

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