Controls on seawater 231Pa, 230Th and 232Th concentrations along the flow paths of deep waters in the Southwest Atlantic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 390, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-102

  Deng, Feifei ^a   Thomas, Alex L ^a,c   Rijkenberg, Micha J A ^b   Henderson, Gideon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

230Th; 231Pa; Deep ocean circulation; GEOTRACES; Particle scavenging; Southwest Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; GEOTRACES; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; NUCLIDE DISTRIBUTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PARTICLE SCAVENGING; SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC; UPPER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER;

DUST; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP WATER; NEPHELOID LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PROTACTINIUM; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84892879110     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.038     Document Type: Article

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