Clay-mineral and grain-size distributions in surface sediments of the White Sea (Arctic Ocean): Indicators of sediment sources and transport processes

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 605-616

  Saukel, Cornelia ^a   Stein, Rüdiger ^a   Vogt, Christoph ^b   Shevchenko, Vladimir P ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; COASTAL EROSION; CURRENT SPEED; DISTRIBUTION MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS; ESTUARINE AREAS; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERAL COMPOSITION; MIRROR SURFACES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RECENT SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SHELF SEAS; SILTY CLAY; SMECTITES; SOURCE AREA; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIDAL CURRENTS; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER CIRCULATION; WHITE SEA;

KAOLINITE; MINERALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; COASTAL EROSION; CURRENT VELOCITY; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; GRAIN SIZE; ILLITE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMECTITE; TIDAL CURRENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; WHITE SEA;

EID: 78349304252     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0210-2     Document Type: Article

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