Mg/Ca thermometry in coral skeletons

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5289, 1996, Pages 961-963

  Mitsuguchi, Takehiro ^a   Matsumoto, Eiji ^a   Abe, Osamu ^a   Uchida, Tetsuo ^b   Isdale, Peter J ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOMETRY; TROPICS;

ANTHOZOA; RYUKYU;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CALCIUM; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNESIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORAL SKELETONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE MEASUREMENT; PALEOCLIMATIC ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

CORAL; MG/CA RATIO; SST;

JAPAN, RYUKYU ISLANDS, ISHIGAKI ISLAND;

EID: 0029659191     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5289.961     Document Type: Article

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