Climate-correlated variations in seawater 187Os/188Os over the past 200,000 yr: Evidence from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 246-258

  Oxburgh, Rachel ^a,b   Pierson Wickmann, Anne Catherine ^c,d   Reisberg, Laurie ^c   Hemming, Sidney ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS UPR 2300 ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cariaco Basin; erosion; glacial interglacial variations; ODP Site 1002; Os; osmium; seawater; weathering

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; OSMIUM; RADIOGENIC GASES; VENEZUELA;

ARIDITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL VARIATIONS; ICE COVER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION;

SEAWATER;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALIFORNIA; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA; EAST PACIFIC RISE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; SEA OF JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35649028808     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.033     Document Type: Article

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