Sedimentation in the Southern Okinawa Trough: Enhanced particle scavenging and teleconnection between the Equatorial Pacific and western Pacific margins

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1769-1780

  Lee, Shih Yu ^a   Huh, Chih An ^a   Su, Chih Chieh ^a   You, Chen Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pb; Kuroshio; North equatorial current; Okinawa Trough; Plutonium isotopes

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT FLUX; SOUTHERN OKINAWA TROUGH (SOT); THERMONUCLEAR TESTS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLUTONIUM; ROCKS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEPOSITION; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; FALLOUT; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; PLUTONIUM; SEDIMENTATION;

BIKINI ATOLL; EAST CHINA SEA; ENEWETAK ATOLL; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 5644277842     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.07.008     Document Type: Article

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