Lower Miocene to present stratigraphy of the equatorial Pacific sediment bulge and carbonate dissolution anomalies

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Mitchell, Neil C ^a   Lyle, Mitchell W ^b   Knappenberger, Marie B ^b   Liberty, Lee M ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate compensation depth; Carbonate dissolution; Central equatorial Pacific; Pacific Deep Water; Pelagic sediment redistribution; Seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DISSOLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; REWORKING; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0142026856     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002PA000828     Document Type: Article

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