Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentation, organic-carbon delivery, and paleoclimatic inferences on the continental slope of the northern Pandora Trough, Gulf of Papua

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Febo, Lawrence A ^a,b   Bentley, Samuel J ^c   Wrenn, John H ^g   Droxler, André W ^d   Dickens, Gerald R ^d   Peterson, Larry C ^e   Opdyke, Bradley N ^f  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF BREAK; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRANSGRESSION;

CORAL SEA; GULF OF PAPUA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PANDORA TROUGH;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 44449136891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000677     Document Type: Article

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