Reduced North Atlantic Deep Water flux to the glacial Southern Ocean inferred from neodymium isotope ratios

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 935-938

  Rutberg, Randye L ^a,b   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; NEODYMIUM; PALLADIUM; THORIUM;

DEEP WATER; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUATERNARY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; HEAT TRANSFER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER TRANSPORT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0034702183     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016049     Document Type: Article

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