Arctic vs. North Atlantic water mass exchanges in Fram Strait from Pb isotopes in sediments

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1253-1263

  Carignan, Jean ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^b   De Vernal, Anne ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; FRAM STRAITS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LAPTEV SEAS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEANS; NORTH ATLANTIC WATERS; PB CONCENTRATIONS; PB ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS; SIMILAR PATTERNS; SOURCE REGIONS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIME SPANS;

LEAD;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND; LAPTEV SEA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 59349114719     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-050     Document Type: Article

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