Opal accumulation rates in the equatorial Pacific and mechanisms of deglaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hayes, C T ^a,b   Anderson, R F ^a,b   Fleisher, M Q ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; DEEP WATER; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; MARINE SEDIMENT; MODE WATER; OPAL; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SILICA; THERMOCLINE; THORIUM ISOTOPE; UNDERCURRENT;

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

BACILLARIOPHYTA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI;

EID: 79951921246     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002008     Document Type: Article

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