Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 339-348

  Finlay, Alexander J ^a   Selby, David ^a   Gröcke, Darren R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Glaciation; Hirnantian; Ordovician; Osmium isotopes; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; BIOZONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DATA TRACKS; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; DRIVING MECHANISM; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLOBAL COOLING; HIRNANTIAN; ICE COVER; ISOTOPE DATA; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; SCOTLAND; SILICATE WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET); GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSMIUM; SILICATES; SOIL MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOZONATION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; HIRNANTIAN; IAPETUS OCEAN; ICE COVER; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SILURIAN;

DOBS LINN; DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951296116     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.049     Document Type: Article

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