The hafnium-neodymium isotopic composition of Atlantic seawater

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 118-127

  Rickli, Jörg ^a   Frank, Martin ^b   Halliday, Alex N ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hafnium isotopes; neodymium isotopes; seawater array; water mass tracing; weathering

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATERS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DEEP OCEANS; DRAKE PASSAGES; FERROMANGANESE CRUSTS; HAFNIUM CONCENTRATIONS; HAFNIUM ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENTS; LABRADOR SEAS; MIXING PROCESS; ND ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; SHORT DISTANCES; WATER COLUMNS; WATER MASS TRACING; WEATHERING PROCESS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EROSION; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE NODULES; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; WEATHERING;

HAFNIUM;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; HAFNIUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS; WEATHERING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DRAKE PASSAGE; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 62549139161     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.026     Document Type: Article

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