Glacial-interglacial sediment transport to the Meiji Drift, northwest Pacific Ocean: Evidence for timing of Beringian outwashing

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: VanLaningham, Sam, Pisias, Nicklas G., Duncan, Robert A., Clift, Peter D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2009
• Subjects: 40 39 Ar- Ar ages; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; contourite; Detroit Seamount; Kamchatka Strait; mid-Pleistocene transition; Nd isotopes; ODP Site 884; provenance; thermohaline circulation; Yukon River; Yukon; Pacific; Detroit; Chukchi; Kamchatka; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/452; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.033

A large sediment deposit known as the Meiji Drift, located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have formed from deep water exiting the Bering Sea, although no notable deep water forms there presently. We determine the terrigenous sources since 140 ka to the drift using bulk sediment 40A...