Distinguishing current effects in sediments delivered to the ocean by ice. I. Principles, methods and examples

IN McCave, JT Andrews - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
There are climatically important ocean flow systems in high latitudes, for example the East
and West Greenland and Labrador Currents and Nordic Sea overflows in the North, and …

Growth of the Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during MIS 5 recorded in distal marine sediment

JT Andrews, DJW Piper, AE Jennings… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Three long cores from Flemish Cap and Orphan Knoll, offshore southeastern Canada,
contain discrete units of detrital carbonates that are coeval with Hudson Strait Heinrich (HS …

Relation of sortable silt grain-size to deep-sea current speeds: Calibration of the 'Mud Current Meter'

IN McCave, DJR Thornalley, IR Hall - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fine grain-size parameters have been used for inference of palaeoflow speeds of near-
bottom currents in the deep-sea. The basic idea stems from observations of varying …

Evaluating Zr/Rb ratio from XRF scanning as an indicator of grain‐size variations of glaciomarine sediments in the Southern Ocean

L Wu, DJ Wilson, R Wang, X Yin, Z Chen… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The ln (Zr/Rb) count ratio derived from X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanning
holds potential as a high‐resolution tracer for grain‐size variations of glaciomarine …

Dynamics of the subpolar gyre and transition zone of the North Atlantic during the last glacial cycle

M Zeng, H Rashid, Y Zhou, JF McManus… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Past studies of marine sediments of the North Atlantic documented millennial-scale sea-
surface cooling related to the Dansgaard-Oeschger events that influenced the oceanic fronts …

Distinguishing current effects in sediments delivered to the ocean by ice. II. Glacial to Holocene changes in high latitude North Atlantic upper ocean flows

IN McCave, JT Andrews - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Shallow ocean flows in the northern North Atlantic are of key importance in the regulation of
Earth's climate. In the northern North Atlantic nutrient-rich cold Arctic Ocean outflow (of …

A comparison of methods for identifying and quantifying ice rafted debris on the Antarctic margin

R McKay, O Albot, GB Dunbar, JI Lee… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantification of ice rafted debris (IRD) abundances in deep‐sea records is often used as a
key proxy for identifying links between ice sheet instability and the oceanic overturning …

2015 Atomic Spectrometry Update–a review of advances in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and their applications

M West, AT Ellis, PJ Potts, C Streli, C Vanhoof… - Journal of Analytical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This review describes advances in the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) group of techniques
published approximately between April 2014 and March 2015 and is therefore restricted to a …

The Holocene Labrador Current: Changing linkages to atmospheric and oceanographic forcing factors

H Rashid, DJW Piper, KB Lazar, K McDonald… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The role of Labrador Current (LC) in providing freshwater to the North Atlantic and
hence modulating the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has been debated …

Atomic spectrometry update—X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

M West, AT Ellis, PJ Potts, C Streli, C Vanhoof… - Journal of Analytical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review demonstrates advances in XRF instrumentation, techniques and data
processing algorithms published during the last year. Pixellated detectors and EDXRF …