Closure of the Central American isthmus and its effect on deep-water formation in the North Atlantic

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6623, 1997, Pages 382-385

  Burton, Kevin W ^a,c   Ling, Hong Fei ^a,b   O'Nions, R Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; NEODYMIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 0030897344     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386382a0     Document Type: Article

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