Glacial-interglacial sediment transport to the Meiji Drift, northwest Pacific Ocean: Evidence for timing of Beringian outwashing

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 64-72

  VanLaningham, Sam ^a   Pisias, Nicklas G ^b   Duncan, Robert A ^b   Clift, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar ages; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; contourite; Detroit Seamount; Kamchatka Strait; mid Pleistocene transition; Nd isotopes; ODP Site 884; provenance; thermohaline circulation; Yukon River

Indexed keywords

40AR-39AR AGES; BERING SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; CONTOURITE; DETROIT SEAMOUNT; KAMCHATKA STRAIT; MID-PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION; ND ISOTOPES; ODP SITE 884; PROVENANCE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YUKON RIVER;

ARGON; BATHYMETRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTOURITE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OUTWASH; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 57749118739     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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