The magnetic fraction: A tracer of deep water circulation in the North Atlantic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 444-454

  Kissel, Catherine ^a   Laj, Carlo ^a   Mulder, Thierry ^b   Wandres, Camille ^a   Cremer, Michel ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

deep oceanic circulation; Holocene; magnetic properties; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM WATER; DEEP WATER; FRACTURE ZONE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENES; ICELANDICS; ICELANDS; MAGNETIC CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC GRAIN SIZE; MAGNETIC PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC STUDIES; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SCOTLAND; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SINGLE DOMAINS; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS;

BATHYMETRY; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETITE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXIDE MINERALS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

RIVERS;

DEEP WATER FORMATION; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRACER; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449732071     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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