High- and low-latitude forcing of the Nile River regime during the Holocene inferred from laminated sediments of the Nile deep-sea fan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 364, Issue , 2013, Pages 98-110

  Blanchet, Cécile L ^a,b   Tjallingii, Rik ^b   Frank, Martin ^a   Lorenzen, Janne ^a   Reitz, Anja ^a   Brown, Kevin ^a   Feseker, Tomas ^a   Brückmann, Warner ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abrupt climatic events; African Humid Period; Bottom seawater oxygenation; Fluvial sources; Insolation changes; Nile River

Indexed keywords

BLUE NILE; CLIMATIC EVENTS; DEEP SEA FAN; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; EOLIAN DUST; FLUVIAL REGIMES; GRAIN-SIZE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENES; HUMID PERIODS; LAMINATED SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; NEODYMIUMS (ND); NILE RIVERS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE INTENSITY; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE;

DEPOSITS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LAMINATING; NEODYMIUM; OXYGENATION; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRONTIUM;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OXYGENATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WATER DEPTH;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; NILE RIVER; SUDAN; WHITE NILE;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 84873716766     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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