A Nd isotopic study of southern sourced waters and indonesian throughflow at intermediate depths in the Cenozoic Indian Ocean

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Martin, Ellen E ^a   Scher, Howie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Indian ocean; Indonesian throughflow; Nd isotopes; ODP site 757; Paleocirculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549114701     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001302     Document Type: Article

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