Surface (sea floor) and near-surface (box cores) sediment mineralogy in Baffin Bay as a key to sediment provenance and ice sheet variations

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1307-1328

  Andrews, John T ^a   Eberl, D D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT DROPS; CENTRAL BASIN; CORE CHANGES; DETRITAL CARBONATE; ENDMEMBERS; GAIN INSIGHT; GLACIAL HISTORY; GRAIN SIZE; ICE SHEET; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MINERAL SPECIES; NEAR-SURFACE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; QUANTITATIVE X RAY DIFFRACTION; REFLECTANCE DATA; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT FRACTION; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; UNMIXING; WATER DEPTH; WEIGHT PERCENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MICA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DOLOMITE; FELDSPAR; GLACIAL HISTORY; GRAIN SIZE; ICE SHEET; MINERALOGY; PROVENANCE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER DEPTH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN];

EID: 80052753714     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e11-021     Document Type: Article

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