Intermediate water formation in the Bering Sea during glacial periods: Evidence from neodymium isotope ratios

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 435-438

  Horikawa, Keiji ^a   Asahara, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Koshi ^a   Okazaki, Yusuke ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN ARC; BERING SEA; BRINE REJECTIONS; GLACIAL BOUNDARIES; GLACIAL PERIOD; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; ISOTOPE RATIO; KAMCHATKA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ND ISOTOPES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; OXYHYDROXIDES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RADIOGENIC VALUES; SOURCE REGION; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER DEPTH; WATER FORMATION; WATER MASS;

ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

NEODYMIUM;

DEEP WATER VENTILATION; GLACIATION; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77953948520     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30225.1     Document Type: Article

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