Application of the Sm-Nd Isotope System to the Late Quaternary Paleoceanography of the Yermak Plateau (Arctic Ocean)

• Main Author: Schmitt, Wolfgang
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2007
• Subjects: isotope geochemistry, neodymium, Arctic Ocean, Late Quaternary, paleoceanography; 550; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; 500; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Laptev Sea; Svalbard Archipelago; Greenland; Yermak Plateau; Burton; Vance; Climate change; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Iceland; laptev; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/edoc.7183; https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/7183

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