Sedimentary trace element records over the last 200 kyr from within and below the northern Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone

Marine Geology

Volumn 231, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 69-88

  van der Weijden, Cornelis H ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a,b   van Os, Bertil J H ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; OMZ; organic matter; precession cycles; redox; trace elements

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN SEA; BIOGENIC PARTICLES; ORGANIC MATTERS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE (OMZ); PRECESSION CYCLES;

COASTAL ZONES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MANGANESE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; REDOX REACTIONS; SEDIMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

DEPOSITION; IMMOBILIZATION; INSOLATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER COLUMN;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 33748261451     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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