Formation of ferromanganese microcrusts in relation to glacial/interglacial stages in Pleistocene sediments from Ampere Seamount (Subtropical NE Atlantic)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 217-232

  Kuhn, T ^a   Halbach, P ^a   Maggiulli, M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMANGANESE CRUST; FERROMANGANESE DEPOSITS; GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MICROCRUST FORMATION; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION; REDOX; SEAMOUNT; SEAMOUNTS;

ATLANTIC, HORSESHOE SEAMOUNT CHAIN, AMPERE BANK;

EID: 0030470215     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(96)00012-5     Document Type: Article

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