Sedimentation on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula over the last three glacial cycles

Marine Geology

Volumn 167, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 313-338

  Pudsey, C J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Biogenic barium; Continental rise; Glacial interglacial; Sediment drifts; Sediment geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DIATOM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDE; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TRACER; TURBIDITY;

CONTINENTAL RISE; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0034661789     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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