Radiocarbon evidence for mid-late Holocene changes in southwest Pacific Ocean circulation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 971-985

  Komugabe Dixson, Aimée F ^a   Fallon, Stewart J ^a   Eggins, Stephen M ^a   Thresher, Ronald E ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

black corals; EAC; radiocarbon; reservoir age; uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GYRE; HOLOCENE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESERVOIR; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); SOUTH ISLAND; TASMAN;

ANTIPATHARIA;

EID: 84978732091     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016PA002929     Document Type: Article

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