Testing the silica leakage hypothesis with sedimentary opal records from the eastern equatorial Pacific over the last 150 kyrs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Kienast, S S ^a,c   Kienast, M ^a,c   Jaccard, S ^b   Calvert, S E ^b   Francois R ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Oceanography ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OPAL FLUX; OPAL RECORDS; SILICA LEAKAGE HYPOTHESIS;

SILICA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAST GLACIAL; LEAKAGE; OPAL; SILICA;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33845652577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026651     Document Type: Article

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