The role of North Brazil Current transport in the paleoclimate of the Brazilian Nordeste margin and paleoceanography of the western tropical Atlantic during the late Quaternary

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 415, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-13

  Nace, Trevor E ^a   Baker, Paul A ^a,b   Dwyer, Gary S ^a   Silva, Cleverson G ^b   Rigsby, Catherine A ^b,c   Burns, Stephen J ^d   Giosan, Liviu ^e   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^f   Liu, Zhengyu ^g   Zhu, Jiang ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon margin; Heinrich events; Late Quaternary; North Brazil Current

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; HEINRICH EVENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BRAZIL;

EID: 84908332606     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.030     Document Type: Article

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