Distribution of clay minerals and proxies for productivity in surface sediments of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas (West Antarctica) - Relation to modern environmental conditions

Marine Geology

Volumn 193, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 253-271

  Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Grobe, Hannes ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a   Fütterer, Dieter K ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Bellingshausen Sea; Clay mineralogy; Continental margin; Productivity

Indexed keywords

TERRIGENOUS SAND;

CLAY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

SEDIMENTS;

CLAY MINERAL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA;

EID: 0037443025     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00659-X     Document Type: Article

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