Reconstructing deglacial North and South Atlantic deep water sourcing using foraminiferal Nd isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 357-358, Issue , 2012, Pages 289-297

  Piotrowski, A M ^a   Galy, A ^a   Nicholl, J A L ^a   Roberts, N ^a   Wilson, D J ^a   Clegg, J A ^a   Yu, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Neodymium isotopes; North Atlantic deep water; Ocean circulation; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTHIGENIC; BOTTOM WATER; CHEMICAL GRADIENTS; DEEP WATER; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; HOLOCENE VALUES; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; ND ISOTOPES; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OXIDE COATING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PALEOCLIMATES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT FRACTION; SEDIMENT PHASIS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME-SCALES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; MANGANESE; NEODYMIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ISOTOPES;

DEGLACIATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CAPE BASIN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84867650619     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.036     Document Type: Article

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