Detrital and early diagenetic processes in Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments from the SW Galicia Bank inferred from high-resolution enviromagnetic and geochemical records

Marine Geology

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 64-92

  Rey, D ^a   Rubio, B ^a   Mohamed, K ^a   Vilas, F ^a   Alonso, B ^b   Ercilla, G ^b   Rivas, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heinrich Events; magnetic properties; Mn diagenesis; Prestige; thermohaline circulation; turbidites

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENTS; MAGNETOCHEMICAL FACIES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; HEINRICH EVENT; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MANGANESE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TURBIDITE; WRECK; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GALICIA BANK;

EID: 39549122013     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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