Advection and scavenging: Effects on 230Th and 231Pa distribution off Southwest Africa

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 159-169

  Scholten, Jan C ^a,b   Fietzke, J ^b,c   Mangini, A ^d   Garbe Schonberg C D ^b   Eisenhauer, A ^c   Schneider, R ^b   Stoffers, P ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angola Basin; boundary scavenging; Cape Basin; fractionation; hydrography; natural radionuclides; sediments; tracer

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE REACTIVE RADIONUCLIDES;

RADIOISOTOPES;

ADVECTION; FRACTIONATION; HYDROGRAPHY; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PROTACTINIUM; RADIONUCLIDE; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); THORIUM;

ANGOLA BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE BASIN;

EID: 45049087309     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.060     Document Type: Article

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