Ventilation of the abyssal Southern Ocean during the late Neogene: A new perspective from the subantarctic Pacific

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Waddell, Lindsey M ^a,b   Hendy, Ingrid L ^a   Moore, Theodore C ^a   Lyle, Mitchell W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70350430314     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001661     Document Type: Article

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