Opal sedimentation shifts in the World Ocean over the last 15 Myr

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 509-527

  Cortese, Giuseppe ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^a   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Mid Pleistocene Revolution; Neogene; Opal; Southern Ocean; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MINERAL; CENOZOIC; OPAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 4143123260     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.035     Document Type: Article

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