Use of strontium isotopes in detrital sediments to constrain the glacial position of the agulhas retroflection

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Franzese, Allison M ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^b   Goldstein, Steven L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LEAKAGE; OVERTURN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 70349496060     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001706     Document Type: Article

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