Tracking the provenance of Greenland-sourced, Holocene aged, individual sand-sized ice-rafted debris using the Pb-isotope compositions of feldspars and 40Ar/39Ar ages of hornblendes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 433, Issue , 2016, Pages 192-203

  White, Lee F ^a   Bailey, Ian ^b,f   Foster, Gavin L ^b   Allen, Georgina ^b,g   Kelley, Simon P ^c   Andrews, John T ^d   Hogan, Kelly ^e,h   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^e   Storey, Craig D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g Mouchel Group   (United Kingdom)

^h BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar Ar; Greenland; Ice rafted debris; Icebergs; Pb isotopes; Provenance

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; SAND; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GREENLAND; ICE RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERGS; PB ISOTOPES; PROVENANCE;

ICE;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; FELDSPAR; HOLOCENE; HORNBLENDE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; PROVENANCE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84946811176     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.054     Document Type: Article

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