U and Th isotope constraints on the duration of Heinrich events H0-H4 in the southeastern Labrador Sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-199

  Veiga Pires, C C ^a,b   Hillaire Marcel, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENT; MARINE RECORD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0032801256     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998PA900003     Document Type: Article

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