Coral skeletons: Storage and recovery of environmental information

Global Change Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 569-582

  Barnes, D J ^a   Lough, J M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral; Density bands; Growth; Palaeoclimate; Skeleton; Trace inclusions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001522560     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.1996.tb00068.x     Document Type: Article

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