Late Holocene freshening of the Baltic Sea derived from high-resolution strontium isotope analyses of mollusk shells

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-190

  Widerlund, Anders ^a   Andersson, Per S ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BEACH SEDIMENTS; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE HOLOCENE; MOLLUSK SHELL; PHOSPHORUS LIMITATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SUBBASINS; SURFACE SALINITIES; TIME RESOLUTION;

ISOTOPES; PHOSPHORUS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

STRONTIUM;

HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOLLUSC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOSALINITY; SHELL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 78851469167     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31524.1     Document Type: Article

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