Particle sorting during sediment redistribution processes and the effect on 230Th-normalized mass accumulation rates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5547-5554

  Marcantonio, Franco ^a   Lyle, Mitchell ^a   Ibrahim, Rami ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Panama Basin; preferential sorting; sediment redistribution; Th 230

Indexed keywords

SCREENING; SEDIMENTS;

COARSE FRACTIONS; CURRENT VELOCITY; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; PANAMA BASIN; SEDIMENT REDISTRIBUTION; SIZE FRACTIONATION; TH-230; BOTTOM CURRENT; COARSE-GRAINED; PARTICLE SORTING;

SEDIMENTS; SCREENING;

FRACTIONATION; OCEAN BASIN; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SORTING;

EID: 84905290528     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060477     Document Type: Article

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