A 550ka record of aeolian activity near north west cape, australia: Inferences from grain-size distributions and bulk chemistry of SE indian ocean deep-sea sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-94

  Stuut, Jan Berend W ^a,b   Temmesfeld, Felix ^a   De Deckker, Patrick ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; End member modelling; Grain size; Monsoon; Ti Ca; XRF scan; Zr Fe

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEOLIAN DUSTS; END-MEMBER MODELLING; GRAIN SIZE; MONSOON; XRF SCAN;

SEDIMENTS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARIDITY; CALCIUM; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; INTERGLACIAL; IRON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; ZIRCONIUM;

AUSTRALIA; CHILE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); NAMIBIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84888353641     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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