Changes in grain size and magnetic fabric at Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge during the late Pleistocene (marine isotope stages 8-10)

Marine Geology

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 123-144

  Yokokawa, Miwa ^a   Franz, Sven Oliver ^b  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Blake Bahama Outer Ridge; Deep Western Boundary Current; Grain size; Late Pleistocene; Ocean Drilling Program

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHIC POSITION;

CARBONATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WATER WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GRAIN SIZE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCURRENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037106674     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00326-2     Document Type: Article

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