The Azores Front since the

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• Subjects: Palaeoceanography; foraminifera; Stable isotopes; Azores Front; Last Glacial Maximum; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.523.249; http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/staff/ejr/Rohling-papers/2004-Rogerson et al 2004 Azores front EPSL222.pdf

urope form anktonic foraminifera in a sediment core from the Gulf of Cadiz since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Today, the Azores Front Close to the Azores Islands lies the Azores Front coincides with the Azores Current, a strong eastward flow that is generated by water mass transformation in Earth and Planetary Science LettersEuropean and African surface water masses [1,2] and extends across the Atlantic between latitudes of 30j and 40jN from the Newfoundland GrandBanks to the AF marks a zone of strong hydrographic transition, in terms of both temperature (f 4 jC) [1] and water column structure [4], and it is characterised by locally intense upwelling [5,6]. The plankton assemblage changes substantially across the AF, particularly below the seasonal ther-mocline, as a result of higher overall productivity and