Circulation through the Central American Seaway during the Miocene carbonate crash

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-90

  Newkirk, Derrick R ^a   Martin, Ellen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MIOCENE; ND ISOTOPES; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PACIFIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; PACIFIC WATER; THROUGHFLOW; UPPER LIMITS; WATER PRODUCTION;

CONVEYORS; DEBRIS; DISSOLUTION; FLOW PATTERNS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

CARBONATION;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE ROCK; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MIOCENE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 62549094080     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25193A.1     Document Type: Article

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