Terrigenous flux in the Rio Grande Rise area during the past 1500 ka: Evidence of deepwater advection or rapid response to continental rainfall patterns?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 84-95

  Gingele, Franz X ^a   Schmieder, Frank ^b   Von Dobeneck, Tilo ^b   Petschick, Rainer ^c   Rühlemann, Carsten ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE; DEEP WATER; KAOLINITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032795616     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998PA900012     Document Type: Article

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