Hydrothermal iron flux variability following rapid sea level changes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3848-3856

  Middleton, Jennifer L ^a,b   Langmuir, Charles H ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ^b   McManus, Jerry F ^c,d   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

hydrothermal; iron; Last Glacial Maximum; mid ocean ridge; sea level; TAG

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IRON; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROTHERMAL; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL;

SEA LEVEL;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COPPER; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGLACIATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; IRON; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84992298484     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068408     Document Type: Article

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