Origin and provenance of spherules and magnetic grains at the Younger Dryas boundary

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Yingzhe ^a,d   Sharma, Mukul ^a   LeCompte, Malcolm A ^b   Demitroff, Mark N ^c   Landis, Joshua D ^a  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; ISOTOPE; OSMIUM;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COOLING; GLACIATION; GRAIN; LEACHING; MAGNETIC GRAIN; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; YOUNGER DRYAS;

COMETARY; GLACIATION;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MAGNETIC PHENOMENA; METEOROIDS; NEW JERSEY; OSMIUM; PENNSYLVANIA; PLATINUM; SILICATES;

EID: 84884300472     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304059110     Document Type: Article

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