Circum-Antarctic age modelling of Quaternary marine cores under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Ice-core dust-magnetic correlation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 113-123

  Pugh, R S ^a,b   McCave, I N ^b   Hillenbrand, C D ^a   Kuhn, G ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic circumpolar current; correlation; Cycladophora davisiana; dust; magnetic susceptibility; Scotia Sea

Indexed keywords

AGE MODELLING; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC ICE CORE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; CYCLADOPHORA DAVISIANA; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; FINE GRAINED; INSOLUBLE ORGANIC MATTER; MAGNETIC CORRELATION; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MICROFOSSILS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; PACIFIC SECTOR; PELAGIC SEDIMENTS; SCOTIA SEA; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TIME-SCALE; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENTS;

CORRELATION METHODS; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MODELING; OCEANIC CURRENT; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTIA SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLADOPHORA DAVISIANA;

EID: 67449088151     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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