Formation of "Southern Component Water" in the Late Cretaceous: Evidence from Nd-isotopes

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 871-874

  Robinson, Stuart A ^a   Murphy, Daniel P ^b   Vance, Derek ^c   Thomas, Deborah J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC PERIODS; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; DEEP-WATER PRODUCTION; DEEPWATER; HEAT TRANSFER PROCESS; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE CRETACEOUS; MID-CRETACEOUS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; PALEOCIRCULATION; PALEOGENE; PARTICLE EXCHANGE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEAWATER; TECTONICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77958091085     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31165.1     Document Type: Article

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