Millennial/centennial-scale thermocline ventilation changes in the Indian Ocean as reflected by aragonite preservation and geochemical variations in Arabian Sea sediments

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6771-6788

  Böning, Philipp ^a   Bard, Edouard ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ARAGONITE; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PRESERVATION; SEAWATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 70349748549     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.028     Document Type: Article

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