Aeolian dust in East Antarctica (EPICA-Dome C and Vostok): Provenance during glacial ages over the last 800 kyr

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Delmonte, Barbara ^a   Andersson, Per S ^b   Hansson, Margarita ^c   Schöberg, Hans ^b   Petit, J R ^d   Basile Doelsch, I ^e   Maggi, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ALKALINE EARTH METALS; DOMES; DUST; GARNETS; ICE; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MIS DEVICES; NEODYMIUM; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ANTARCTIC ICE CORES; ANTARCTICA; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EVOLUTION (CO); ICE CORES; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; MINERAL DUSTS; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; POLAR ICE; SOUTH AMERICA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; ICE CORE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 45549092782     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033382     Document Type: Article

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