Variable HfSrNd radiogenic isotopic compositions in a Saharan dust storm over the Atlantic: Implications for dust flux to oceans, ice sheets and the terrestrial biosphere

Chemical Geology

Volumn 349-350, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-26

  Aarons, S M ^a   Aciego, S M ^a   Gleason, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Hf; Nd; Sr; Zircon effect

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DUST SAMPLES; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; INFORMATION CONCERNING; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERAL PARTICLES; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DEPOSITS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; MODELS; NEODYMIUM; STORMS; STRONTIUM; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

DUST;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST STORM; HAFNIUM; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTICLE SIZE; POINT SOURCE; PROVENANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 84878142826     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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