Persistent export of 231 Pa from the deep central Arctic Ocean over the past 35,000 years

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7451, 2013, Pages 603-606

  Hoffmann, Sharon S ^a   McManus, Jerry F ^a   Curry, William B ^b,c   Susan Brown Leger, L ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTACTINIUM 231; RADIOISOTOPE; SEA WATER; THORIUM 230; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTACTINIUM; THORIUM;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERSISTENCE; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIMESCALE; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMISTRY; FORAMINIFER; HISTORY; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FORAMINIFERA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; PROTACTINIUM; SEAWATER; THORIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878401006     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12145     Document Type: Article

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