Tracking eolian dust with helium and thorium: Impacts of grain size and provenance

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-67

  McGee, David ^a   Winckler, Gisela ^b,c   Borunda, Alejandra ^b,c   Serno, Sascha ^b,d   Anderson, Robert F ^b,c   Recasens, Cristina ^b   Bory, Aloys ^e   Gaiero, Diego ^f   Jaccard, Samuel L ^g   Kaplan, Michael ^b   McManus, Jerry F ^b,c   Revel, Marie ^h   Sun, Youbin ⁱ  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c University of Potsdam ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

ⁱ Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); AUSTRALIA; FAR EAST; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84949988934     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.023     Document Type: Article

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