Sediment focusing in the panama basin, eastern equatorial pacific ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 33-44

  Singh, Ajay K ^a   Marcantonio, Franco ^a   Lyle, Mitchell ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary scavenging; Eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean; Mass accumulation rate; Panama basin; Sediment focusing; Thorium 230

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SCAVENGING; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; MASS ACCUMULATION RATE; PANAMA BASIN; THORIUM-230;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOMARKERS; FOCUSING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAST GLACIAL; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 79961128594     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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