A record of changing redox conditions in the northern Peru Basin during the late Quaternary deduced from Mn/Fe and growth rate variations in two diagenetic manganese nodules

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 403-415

  Bollhofer A ^a,b   Frank, N ^b   Rohloff, S ^b   Mangini, A ^b   Scholten, J C ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Manganese composition; Mass spectra; Nodules; Southeast pacific; Th U

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0345504213     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00126-0     Document Type: Article

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