Tracking the sources of icebergs with lead isotopes: The provenance of ice-rafted debris in Heinrich layer 2

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-93

  Gwiazda, Roberto H ^a,b,c   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Broecker, Wallace S ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINGE/PURGE MODEL; HEINRICH EVENT; HEINRICH EVENTS; ICE RAFTED DEBRIS; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG SOURCE; ICEBERGS; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD ISOTOPES; PALAEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0029752266     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95PA03135     Document Type: Article

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