Climate-controlled variability of iron deposition in the Central Arctic Ocean (southern Mendeleev Ridge) over the last 130,000 years

Chemical Geology

Volumn 330-331, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-126

  Marz C ^a,b   Poulton, S W ^c   Brumsack, H J ^b   Wagner, T ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Mn layers; Arctic Ocean; Extraction; Fe (oxyhydr)oxides; Sediments; Sheet silicate bound Fe

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC MN LAYERS; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC RIVERS; AUTHIGENIC; BERING SEA; BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CYCLICITY; DIAGENETIC PROCESS; DIAGENETICS; DIRECT RESPONSE; FERRIHYDRITES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; IRON DEPOSITION; LEPIDOCROCITE; METAL ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PHYSICAL WEATHERING; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; RIVER INPUT; RIVERINE INPUT; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; TRACE METAL; WATER COLUMNS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEPOSITS; EXTRACTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; PHOSPHORUS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATES; WEATHERING;

SEDIMENTS;

DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; IRON; MARINE SEDIMENT; PHYLLOSILICATE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WEATHERING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; MENDELEYEV RIDGE;

EID: 84866498649     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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