Testing the extraction of past seawater Nd isotopic composition from North Atlantic deep sea sediments and foraminifera

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Elmore, A C ^a   Piotrowski, A M ^b   Wright, J D ^c   Scrivner, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

neodymium; paleoceanography; water mass tracer

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); OCEANOGRAPHY; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

AUTHIGENIC; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; DEEP WATER; FORAMINIFERAL SHELLS; ICELANDS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LEACHATES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC WATERS; OXIDE COATING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT CORE; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC MATERIALS; WATER MASS TRACER;

NEODYMIUM;

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAWATER; TESTING METHOD; VOLCANIC ASH; WATER MASS; WEATHERING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80053606505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003741     Document Type: Article

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