Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography : Examples from the South Atlantic

Clues to Ocean History: a Brief Overview of Proxies.- Surface Water Circulation.- Sea-Surface Temperature Estimations Using a Modern Analog Technique with Foraminiferal Assemblages from Western Atlantic Quaternary Sediments.- The Distribution of Living Planktic Foraminifera in Relation to Southeast Atlantic Oceanography.- Coccolithophores as Indicators of Ocean Water Masses, Surface-Water Temperature, and Paleoproductivity - Examples from the South Atlantic.- Calcareous Dinoflagellate Cysts as Paleo-Environmental Tools.- Oxygen Isotope Values of Planktic Foraminifera: A Tool for the Reconstruction of Surface Water Stratification.- Stable Isotopes of Pteropod Shells as Recorders of Sub-Surface Water Conditions: Comparison to the Record of G. ruber and to Measured Values.- On the Reconstruction of Paleosalinities.- Bottom- and Deep Water Circulation.- Stable Carbon Isotopes in Benthic Foraminifera: Proxies for Deep and Bottom Water Circulation and New Production.- Carbonate Dissolution in the Deep-Sea: Methods, Quantification and Paleoceanographic Application.- Kaolinite and Chlorite as Tracers of Modern and Late Quaternary Deep Water Circulation in the South Atlantic and the Adjoining Southern Ocean.- Paleoproductivity and Nutrients.- Organic Carbon and Carbonate as Paleoproductivity Proxies: Examples from High and Low Productivity Areas of the Tropical Atlantic.- Biogenic Barium as a Proxy for Paleoproductivity: Methods and Limitations of Application.- Variability in Export Production Documented by Downward Fluxes and Species Composition of Marine Planktic Diatoms: Observations from the Tropical and Equatorial Atlantic.- Reliability of the 231Pa/230 Th Activity Ratio as a Tracer for Bioproductivity of the Ocean.- Sediment Redistribution, 230Thex - Normalization and Implications for the Reconstruction of Particle Flux and Export Paleoproductivity.- The South Atlantic Carbon Isotope Record of Planktic Foraminifera.- Reconstruction of Surface Ocean Nitrate Utilization Using Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Sinking Particles and Sediments.- CO2 in Oceans and Atmosphere.- Alkenone ?13C as a Proxy for Past PCO2 in Surface Waters: Results from the Late Quaternary Angola Current.- Reassessing Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Geochemistry: Impact of the Oceanic Carbonate System (Experimental Results).- Implications of a Carbonate Ion Effect on Shell Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes for Glacial Ocean Conditions.- Atmospherical Circulation.- Pollen and Spores in Marine Sediments from the East Atlantic - A View from the Ocean into the African Continent.- Terrestrial Organic Matter in Marine Sediments: Analytical Approaches and Eolian-Marine Records in the Central Equatorial Atlantic.- Environmental Magnetism.- The Magnetic View on the Marine Paleoenvironment: Parameters, Techniques, and Potentials of Rock Magnetic Studies as a Key to Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic Changes.- Using Rock Magnetic Proxy Records for Orbital Tuning and Extended Time Series Analyses into the Super- and Sub-Milankovitch Bands.- Geomagnetic Events and Relative Paleointensity Records - Clues to High-Resolution Paleomagnetic Chronostratigraphies of Late Quaternary Marine Sediments?.- Modelling.- Simulation of Oxygen Isotopes in a Global Ocean Model.- Reconstructing and Modelling the Last Glacial Maximum: Beyond CLIMAP.- Data Management.- Data Management of Proxy Parameters with PANGAEA.