Growth ages of ferromanganese crusts from the western and central pacific: Comparison between nannofossil analysis and 10Be dating

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 3035-3040

  Cheng, Zhenbo ^a   Shi, Xuefa ^a   Wu, Yonghua ^a   Su, Xin ^b   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Wang, Kunshan ^a   Yang, Yongliang ^c   Ge, Shulan ^a   Ju, Xiaohua ^a   Shi, Fengdeng ^a   Hiroyuki, M ^d  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

10Be dating; Ferromanganese crusts; Growth ages; Growth rates; Nannofossil

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846451808     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2193-y     Document Type: Article

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