Two possible source regions for central Greenland last glacial dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 10399-10408

  Újvári, Gábor ^a   Stevens, Thomas ^b   Svensson, Anders ^c   Klötzli, Urs S ^d   Manning, Christina ^e   Németh, Tibor ^a   Kovács, János ^f   Sweeney, Mark R ^g   Gocke, Martina ^h   Wiesenberg, Guido L B ^h   Markovic, Slobodan B ⁱ   Zech, Michael ^j  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^g University of South Dakota   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

clay mineralogy; Greenland dust; origin; provenance; Sr Nd Hf isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLAY DEPOSITS; CLAY MINERALS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; SEDIMENTS; SILT; STRONTIUM;

CLAY MINERALOGY; GREENLAND; HF ISOTOPE; ORIGIN; PROVENANCE;

DUST;

CLAY MINERAL; DUST; HAFNIUM; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PROVENANCE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84953637989     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066153     Document Type: Article

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