Provenance of Late Quaternary ice-proximal sediments in the North Atlantic: Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic evidence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 227-243

  Land Farmer, G ^a   Barber, Donald ^a   Andrews, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacimarine; Heinrich events; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Nd isotopes; Provenance

Indexed keywords

GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE MARGIN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037446410     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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