Biogeography in 231Pa/230Th ratios and a balanced 231Pa budget for the Pacific Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 391, Issue , 2014, Pages 307-318

  Hayes, Christopher T ^a,b   Anderson, Robert F ^a,b   Fleisher, Martin Q ^a   Serno, Sascha ^a,c   Winckler, Gisela ^a,b   Gersonde, Rainer ^d  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeographic provinces; Boundary scavenging; INOPEX; Protactinium; Thorium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894315882     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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