Changes in Timor Strait hydrology and thermocline structure during the past 130 ka

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 462, Issue , 2016, Pages 112-124

  Lo Giudice Cappelli, Elena ^a,b   Holbourn, Ann ^a   Kuhnt, Wolfgang ^a   Regenberg, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hoeglundina elegans Mg Ca; Indonesian Throughflow; Lower thermocline; Timor Sea; X ray fluorescence core scanning

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELF DYNAMICS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; THROUGHFLOW; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

INDIAN OCEAN; TIMOR SEA;

HOGLUNDINA ELEGANS;

EID: 84991201132     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.010     Document Type: Article

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