Boundary scavenging at the East Atlantic margin does not negate use of 231Pa/ 230Th to trace Atlantic overturning

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 317-331

  Lippold, Jörg ^a   Mulitza, Stefan ^b   Mollenhauer, Gesine ^b   Weyer, Stefan ^c,f   Heslop, David ^d   Christl, Marcus ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

231Pa 230Th; African margin; AMOC; Boundary scavenging; LGM; North Atlantic Deep Water

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN MARGIN; AMOC; BOUNDARY SCAVENGING; LGM; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER;

GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CORE ANALYSIS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROTACTINIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); THORIUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); NAMIBIA; SENEGAL;

EID: 84861337716     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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