The usefulness of bivalve stable isotope profiles as environmental indicators: Data from the eastern Pacific Ocean and the southern Caribbean Sea

Palaios

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 328-339

  Bemis, Bryan E ^a,b   Geary, Dana H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; VENERIDAE;

BIVALVE; BIVALVES; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALAEOENVIRONMENTS; SHELLS;

CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC;

EID: 0030423831     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515243     Document Type: Article

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