Geochemistry of foraminifera from sediment cores of the central California margin ...

• Main Authors: van Geen, Alexander, Fairbanks, Richard G, Dartnell, Peter, McGann, Mary L, Gardner, James V, Kashgarian, Michaele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1996
• Subjects: Piston corer; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University LDEO; Fairbanks; Gardner; Pacific; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.729962; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.729962

Under present climate conditions, convection at high latitudes of the North Pacific is restricted to shallower depths than in the North Atlantic. To what extent this asymmetry between the two ocean basins was maintained over the past 20 kyr is poorly known because there are few unambiguous proxy rec...