Find below a summary of main GEOTRACES findings and products on neodymium research:
Atlas
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Atlantic Ocean:
Pacific Ocean:
3D scenes showing the distribution of dissolved iron in the Atlantic and the Pacific. In warm colours (red, orange, etc.) you can view high concentrations of dissolved neodymium.
Data
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Discoveries include:
Below you can find a list of science highlights of main GEOTRACES discoveries on neodymium research:
Science Highlights
A refined neodymium parameter modelling study reveals differing controls on neodymium cycling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Since neodymium isotopes are used as proxies for past ocean circulation and, more rarely, past weathering, constraining the modern Nd cycle is a major challenge for marine geochemists…
Science Highlights
Contraction of North Atlantic Deep Water during glacial times: a paradigm called into question
Blaser and co-authors propose a new distribution of deep-water masses in the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Heinrich Stadial..
Science Highlights
Authigenic radiogenic neodymium isotope composition traces millennial-scale overturning circulation variability in the Arabian Sea
The neodymium isotopic signature of the sediment authigenic fraction is, a priori, a valuable proxy for reconstructing deep-water mass trajectories…
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Magmatic activity at the Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean triggered by glacial sea-level variation
De and colleagues provide a high-resolution record of magmatic input and associated hydrothermal activity over the past 49 kyr from a core recovered from a magmatic segment of the slow-spreading Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean.
Science Highlights
Trace Element Dynamics in the Oligotrophic Northwest Pacific: Insights from the China GEOTRACES GP09 Cruise
This highlight summarises several articles arising from the GP09 cruise in the Northwest Pacific Ocean…
Science Highlights
Neodymium isotopes trace past Antarctic Intermediate Water circulation in the Arabian Sea
Shukla and co-authors reconstruct ventilation in the Northwestern Indian Ocean…
List of publications
Scroll down to view the list of GEOTRACES publications on dissolved neodymium: