Mediterranean coccolith ecobiostratigraphy since the penultimate Glacial (the last 145,000years) and ecobioevent traceability

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-38

  Di Stefano, Agata ^a   Foresi, Luca M ^b   Incarbona, Alessandro ^c   Sprovieri, Mario ^d   Vallefuoco, Mattia ^d   Iorio, Marina ^d   Pelosi, Nicola ^d   Di Stefano, Enrico ^c   Sangiorgi, Patrizia ^a   Budillon, Francesca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coccoliths; Ecobioevent traceability; Ecobiostratigraphy; Late Quaternary; Mediterranean Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COCCOLITH; HOLOCENE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARDINIA CHANNEL;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; GEPHYROCAPSA OCEANICA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; HAPTOPHYCEAE; HELICOSPHAERA CARTERI; SYRACOSPHAERA;

EID: 84920936167     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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