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Western Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability on different time scales : a study based on stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, benthic foraminiferal assemblages and Mg/Ca paleothermometry


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Other Titles: Zirkulations- und Klimavariabilität des West-Indiks auf verschiedenen Zeitskalen : eine Studie basierend auf stabilen Sauerstoff- und Kohlenstoff-Isotopenverhältnissen, benthischen Foraminiferen-Vergesellschaftungen und Mg/Ca-Paläotemperaturmessung
Authors: Romahn, Sarah 
Supervisor: Mackensen, Andreas 
1. Expert: Mackensen, Andreas 
2. Expert: Wefer, Gerold  
Abstract: 
In order to understand the Earth´s climate evolution it is crucial to evaluate the role of low-latitude oceans in the global climate system, as they are connected to both hemispheres via atmospheric and oceanic circulation and thus hold the potential to disentangle the asynchronicity of short-term Pleistocene climate variability. However, the potential of low latitude oceans to respond to and force large-scale changes of the climate system is still debated. The aim of this thesis is to examine and to understand the causal relationship of both atmospheric and oceanic changes in the tropical western Indian Ocean on centennial-, millennial and glacial-interglacial timescales. For this purpose I investigated stable oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of both planktic and benthic foraminiferal tests, Mg/Ca ratios of planktic foraminiferal tests as well as benthic foraminiferal assemblages and sedimentary geochemical parameters on two sediment cores (GeoB12615-4, 446 m and GeoB12616-4, 1449 m) from the continental slope off Tanzania, East Africa.
Keywords: Marine Geology, Micropaleontology, African climate change, Indian Ocean paleoceanography
Issue Date: 28-Nov-2014
Type: Dissertation
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104138-17
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: FB5 Geowissenschaften 
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