Detailed sedimentary N isotope records from Cariaco Basin for terminations I and V: Local and global implications

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Meckler, A Nele ^a,b   Haug, Gerald H ^a,c   Sigman, Daniel M ^d   Plessen, Birgit ^c   Peterson, Larry C ^e   Thierstein, Hans R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; DUST; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANOXIA; DENITRIFICATION; DUST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST DEGLACIATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 40749097300     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002893     Document Type: Article

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