Excess 210Pb inventories and fluxes along the continental slope and basins of the Gulf of Papua

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Muhammad, Zahid ^a   Bentley, Samuel J ^b   Febo, Lawrence A ^a   Droxler, André W ^c   Dickens, Gerald R ^c   Peterson, Larry C ^d   Opdyke, Bradley N ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOSITION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARGINAL BASIN; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

CORAL SEA; GULF OF PAPUA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 44449131320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000676     Document Type: Article

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