Correcting for the influence of ice-rafted detritus on grain size-based paleocurrent speed estimates

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1347-1357

  Jonkers, Lukas ^a   Barker, Stephen ^a   Hall, Ian R ^a   Prins, Maarten A ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

current speed; grain size; ice rafted detritus; inverse modeling; North Atlantic; sortable silt

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DETRITUS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; ICE RAFTING; INVERSE PROBLEM; MODELING; PALEOCURRENT; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; SILT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84952631359     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002830     Document Type: Article

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