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Lead isotopic evidence for an Australian source of aeolian dust to Antarctica at times over the last 1700,000 years

Date

Authors

De Deckker, Patrick

Norman, Marc

Goodwin, Ian

Wain, Alan

Gingele, Franz Xaver

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Systematic analysis of Pb, Sr and Nd isotopes of 32 fluvial clay samples (< 2 μm fraction) from many of the major tributaries of the vast (1.106 km2) Murray Darling Basin (MDB), located in semiarid southeastern Australia, displays similar isotopic values

Keywords

Keywords: eolian deposit; ice core; interglacial; lead isotope; neodymium isotope; paleoceanography; paleoenvironment; strontium isotope; Argentina; Australia; Murray-Darling Basin; Patagonia; Southern Ocean Airborne dust; Antarctic ice cores; Argentina; EPICA; Murray Darling Basin; Nd isotopes; Patagonia; Pb; Sr; Vostok

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/32268

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.013

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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