Sm-Nd signature of modern and late Quaternary sediments from the northwest North Atlantic: Implications for deep current changes since the Last Glacial Maximum

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 607-625

  Innocent, Christophe ^a,b   Fagel, Nathalie ^a   Stevenson, Ross K ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Bur Rech Geologiques et Minieres   (France)

Author keywords

Nd 144 Nd 143; Northwest Atlantic; Paleocirculation; Provenance; Sm Nd

Indexed keywords

CHANGE; DEEP CURRENT CHANGES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEAN CURRET; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0030856232     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00251-8     Document Type: Article

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