Pre-modern Arctic Ocean circulation from surface sediment neodymium isotopes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 893-897

  Haley, Brian A ^a   Polyak, Leonid ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; circulation; climate change; Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BOTTOM-WATER CIRCULATION; BRINE REJECTIONS; CHANGING CLIMATE; ND ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES; SEDIMENT REDISTRIBUTION; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

BOILER CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEACHATE; NEODYMIUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; WATER COLUMN;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84876812042     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50188     Document Type: Article

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