Sources of Fe to the equatorial Pacific Ocean from the Holocene to Miocene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 258-270

  Ziegler, Christa L ^a   Murray, Richard W ^a   Plank, Terry ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

dust; equatorial Pacific; Equatorial Undercurrent; iron; productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; HOLOCENE; MICRONUTRIENT; MIOCENE;

DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; HOLOCENE; IRON; MIOCENE; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 44649135150     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.044     Document Type: Article

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