Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Clues to Ocean History: a Brief Overview of Proxies....Pages 1-68
Sea-Surface Temperature Estimations Using a Modern Analog Technique with Foraminiferal Assemblages from Western Atlantic Quaternary Sediments....Pages 69-90
The Distribution of Living Planktic Foraminifera in Relation to Southeast Atlantic Oceanography....Pages 91-115
Coccolithophores as Indicators of Ocean Water Masses, Surface-Water Temperature, and Paleoproductivity — Examples from the South Atlantic....Pages 117-144
Calcareous Dinoflagellate Cysts as Paleo-Environmental Tools....Pages 145-164
Oxygen Isotope Values of Planktic Foraminifera: A Tool for the Reconstruction of Surface Water Stratification....Pages 165-189
Stable Isotopes of Pteropod Shells as Recorders of Sub-Surface Water Conditions: Comparison to the Record of G. ruber and to Measured Values....Pages 191-206
On the Reconstruction of Paleosalinities....Pages 207-228
Stable Carbon Isotopes in Benthic Foraminifera: Proxies for Deep and Bottom Water Circulation and New Production....Pages 229-254
Carbonate Dissolution in the Deep-Sea: Methods, Quantification and Paleoceanographic Application....Pages 255-284
Kaolinite and Chlorite as Tracers of Modern and Late Quaternary Deep Water Circulation in the South Atlantic and the Adjoining Southern Ocean....Pages 285-313
Organic Carbon and Carbonate as Paleoproductivity Proxies: Examples from High and Low Productivity Areas of the Tropical Atlantic....Pages 315-344
Biogenic Barium as a Proxy for Paleoproductivity: Methods and Limitations of Application....Pages 345-364
Variability in Export Production Documented by Downward Fluxes and Species Composition of Marine Planktic Diatoms: Observations from the Tropical and Equatorial Atlantic....Pages 365-392
Reliability of the 231 Pa / 230 Th Activity Ratio as a Tracer for Bioproductivity of the Ocean....Pages 393-408
Sediment Redistribution, 230 Th ex - Normalization and Implications for the Reconstruction of Particle Flux and Export Paleoproductivity....Pages 409-426
The South Atlantic Carbon Isotope Record of Planktic Foraminifera....Pages 427-445
Reconstruction of Surface Ocean Nitrate Utilization Using Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Sinking Particles and Sediments....Pages 447-468
Alkenone δ 13 C as a Proxy for Past P CO 2 in Surface Waters: Results from the Late Quaternary Angola Current....Pages 469-488
Reassessing Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Geochemistry: Impact of the Oceanic Carbonate System (Experimental Results)....Pages 489-512
Implications of a Carbonate Ion Effect on Shell Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes for Glacial Ocean Conditions....Pages 513-522
Pollen and Spores in Marine Sediments from the East Atlantic -A View from the Ocean into the African Continent....Pages 523-546
Terrestrial Organic Matter in Marine Sediments: Analytical Approaches and Eolian-Marine Records in the Central Equatorial Atlantic....Pages 547-574
The Magnetic View on the Marine Paleoenvironment: Parameters, Techniques and Potentials of Rock Magnetic Studies as a Key to Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic Changes....Pages 575-599
Using Rock Magnetic Proxy Records for Orbital Tuning and Extended Time Series Analyses into the Super- and Sub-Milankovitch Bands....Pages 601-633
Geomagnetic Events and Relative Paleointensity Records — Clues to High-Resolution Paleomagnetic Chronostratigraphies of Late Quaternary Marine Sediments?....Pages 635-654
Simulation of Oxygen Isotopes in a Global Ocean Model....Pages 655-686
Reconstructing and Modelling the Last Glacial Maximum: Beyond CLIMAP....Pages 687-714
Data Management of Proxy Parameters with PANGAEA....Pages 715-727
Back Matter....Pages 729-735