Millennial-scale variations in dustiness recorded in Mid-Atlantic sediments from 0 to 70 ka

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 482, Issue , 2018, Pages 12-22

  Middleton, Jennifer L ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ^b   Langmuir, Charles H ^a   McManus, Jerry F ^c,d   Huybers, Peter J ^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

helium 3; mass accumulation rate; mineral dust; North Africa; Subtropical North Atlantic; thorium 232

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; THORIUM; TROPICS;

DUST DEPOSITION; DUST FLUX; HELIUM-3; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MID-ATLANTIC; MINERAL DUST; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH ATLANTIC; SUBTROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC; THORIUM-232;

DUST;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 85033580891     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.034     Document Type: Article

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