Comparing dust flux records from the Subarctic North Pacific and Greenland: Implications for atmospheric transport to Greenland and for the application of dust as a chronostratigraphic tool

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 583-600

  Serno, Sascha ^a,b,c   Winckler, Gisela ^a,d   Anderson, Robert F ^a,d   Maier, Edith ^e   Ren, Haojia ^a,f   Gersonde, Rainer ^e   Haug, Gerald H ^g  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atmospheric circulation; chronostratigrapy; eolian dust; helium 4; paleoreservoir age; Subarctic North Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HELIUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTHGRIP; RADIOCARBON DATING; SURFACE WATER;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; DETROIT; GREENLAND; MICHIGAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947493782     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002748     Document Type: Article

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