Variable Eocene-Miocene sedimentation processes and bottom water redox conditions in the Central Arctic Ocean (IODP Expedition 302)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 526-537

  März, Christian ^a   Vogt, Christoph ^b   Schnetger, Bernhard ^a   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ce anomaly; Diagenesis; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; ARCTIC; ARCTIC CORING EXPEDITIONS; ARCTIC OCEAN; AUTHIGENIC; BOTTOM WATER; CENOZOIC; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CONTINUOUS SEDIMENTATION; DIAGENESIS; EUXINIA; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NEOGENE DEPOSITS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALEOGENE; REDEPOSITION; REDOX CONDITION; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TRACE METAL; WATER COLUMNS; WATER MASS; WORLD OCEAN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CERIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BOTTOM WATER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; EOCENE; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; HIATUS; LITHOLOGY; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; UNCONFORMITY; WEATHERING RATE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LOMONOSOV RIDGE;

EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 80053436819     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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