Ra in marine barite: New constraints on supported 226Ra

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 147-161

  Van Beek, Pieter ^a   Reyss, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Barite; Equatorial Pacific; Holocene; Ra 226; Sedimentation rates

Indexed keywords

BARITE; DATING METHOD; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADON;

EID: 0035001628     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00288-6     Document Type: Article

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