Time constraints from 230Th and 231Pa data in late Quaternary, low sedimentation rate sequences from the Arctic Ocean: An example from the northern Mendeleev Ridge

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 25-26, 2010, Pages 3665-3675

  Not, Christelle ^a   Hillaire Marcel Claude, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CARBONATE CONTENT; FORAMINIFERS; GLACIAL CYCLES; GRAIN SIZE; ICE RAFTING; INORGANIC CARBON; INORGANIC CONTENT; LATE QUATERNARY; MODEL ESTIMATES; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; SAND CONTENT; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHORT TERMINATIONS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME FRAME; U-SERIES; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; OXYGEN; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTATION;

ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; MENDELEYEV RIDGE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78049443719     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.042     Document Type: Article

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