4He as a tracer of continental dust: A 1.9 million year record of aeolian flux to the west equatorial Pacific Ocean

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 615-625

  Patterson, D B ^a   Parley, K A ^a,b   Norman, M D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN PROCESS; HELIUM ISOTOPE; OCEAN BASIN; QUATERNARY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032843229     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00077-0     Document Type: Article

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