Sedimentary opal records in the eastern equatorial Pacific: It is not all about leakage

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a   Kienast, Markus ^a   Kienast, Stephanie ^a   Calvert, Stephen E ^b   Franois, Roger ^b   Anderson, Robert F ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PRODUCTIVITY; ATMOSPHERIC CO; DEEP WATER; DEGLACIATIONS; DUST FLUX; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL UPWELLING; EXPORT PRODUCTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINT; NUTRIENT-RICH WATER; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RADIOISOTOPE TRACERS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SILICIC ACIDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DUST; FORECASTING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICON; STREAM FLOW;

PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COCCOLITH; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LEAKAGE; OPAL; RADIONUCLIDE; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SILICIC ACID; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 78649815037     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003821     Document Type: Article

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