Climate driven glacial-interglacial variations in the osmium isotope composition of seawater recorded by planktic foraminifera

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 58-68

  Burton, Kevin W ^a,b   Gannoun, Abdelmouhcine ^c   Parkinson, Ian J ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Universite Blaise Pascal   (France)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Foraminifera; Glacial interglacial variations; Osmium isotopes; Seawater; Weathering and erosion

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENIC; BAY OF BENGAL; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; COVARIATION; DIAGENETICS; ELEMENTAL DATA; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL VARIATIONS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HOLOCENES; IN-PHASE; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; LEACHATES; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYHYDROXIDES; PELAGIC CARBONATES; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; PROCESS CONTROLLING; RESIDENCE TIME; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC ASH;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; VOLCANOES; WEATHERING;

OSMIUM;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOBILIZATION; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAWATER; WEATHERING;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77953027847     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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