Chronology of marine sediments by the racemization reaction of aspartic acid in planktonic foraminifera

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 8-9, 1996, Pages 921-930

  Harada, Naomi ^a,c   Handa, Nobuhiko ^a,d   Ito, Masahiko ^a   Tadamichi, Oba ^b   Matsumoto, Eiji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

14C age; amino acid chronology; aspartic acid; eep sea sediment; first order kinetic model; planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AMINO ACID RACEMIZATION; AMINO ACIDS; ASPARTIC ACID; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; DISSOLUTION; FORAMINIFERA; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MARINE BIOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID CHRONOLOGY; ASPARTIC ACID; MARINE SEDIMENTS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RACEMIZATION; SEDIMENTARY CORE STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0030201229     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(96)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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