The seawater neodymium and lead isotope record of the final stages of Central American Seaway closure

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 715-729

  Osborne, Anne H ^a   Newkirk, Derrick R ^b,c   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^d   Martin, Ellen E ^b   Tiedemann, Ralf ^e   Frank, Martin ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

AMOC; lead isotopes; neodymium isotopes; Panama; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904082784     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002676     Document Type: Article

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