Tracing dust input to the global ocean using thorium isotopes in marine sediments: ThoroMap

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1526-1541

  Kienast, S S ^a   Winckler, G ^b,c   Lippold, J ^d,e   Albani, S ^f,g   Mahowald, N M ^f  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^c University of Bern ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

continental dust; marine sediments; reconstruction; thorium isotopes; ThoroMap

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DATA ASSIMILATION; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL OCEAN; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TRACKING;

EID: 84994662973     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GB005408     Document Type: Article

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