Radiometrically determined sedimentary fluxes in the sub-polar North Atlantic during the last 140,000 years

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 29-43

  McManus, Jerry F ^a   Anderson, Robert F ^b   Broecker, Wallace S ^b   Fleisher, Martin Q ^b   Higgins, Sean M ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Deep sea sedimentation; North Atlantic; Quaternary; Th 230

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031819370     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00201-x     Document Type: Article

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