Nitrogen isotope and productivity variations along the northeast Pacific margin over the last 120 kyr: Surface and subsurface paleoceanography

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 7-1-7-17

  Kienast, Stephanie S ^a   Calvert, Stephen E ^a   Pedersen, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

California Current; California Undercurrent; Denitrification; Nitrogen isotopes; Paleoproduction

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0347588524     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001PA000650     Document Type: Article

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