Deglacial weakening of the oceanic soft tissue pump: Global constraints from sedimentary nitrogen isotopes and oxygenation proxies

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 38-48

  Galbraith, Eric D ^a   Jaccard, Samuel L ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological pump; Carbon dioxide; Dissolved oxygen; Ice ages; Iron fertilization; Marine sediments; Nitrogen isotopes; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OXYGENATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL PUMPS; ICE AGE; IRON FERTILIZATION; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OCEAN CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCUMULATION; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGENATION; POLAR REGION; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84918767406     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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