230Th in the eastern North Atlantic: The importance of water mass ventilation in the balance of 230Th

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 61-74

  Vogler, S ^a   Scholten, J ^b   Rutgers Van Der Loeff, M ^c   Mangini, A ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Mass spectrometry; North Atlantic; Radioactive isotopes; Thorium

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THORIUM-230;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031848633     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00011-9     Document Type: Article

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