Signatures and significance of aeolian, fluvial, bacterial and diagenetic magnetic mineral fractions in Late Quaternary marine sediments off Gambia, NW Africa

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Just, Janna ^a   Dekkers, Mark J ^b   Von Dobeneck, Tilo ^a   Van Hoesel, Annelies ^b   Bickert, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; IRM end member modeling; Magnetotactic bacteria; NW Africa; Paleoclimate; Terrigenous input

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; NW AFRICA; PALEOCLIMATES; TERRIGENOUS INPUT;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BACTERIUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIAGENESIS; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GOETHITE; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GAMBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84867223883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004146     Document Type: Article

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