Trace and rare earth elemental variation in Arabian Sea sediments through a transect across the oxygen minimum zone

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2375-2388

  Nagender Nath, B ^a   Bau, M ^b   Ramalingeswara Rao, B ^a   Rao, Ch M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTHS; REE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0030777257     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00094-X     Document Type: Article

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