Deep-dwelling planktonic foraminifera of the northeastern Pacific Ocean reveal environmental control of oxygen and carbon isotopic disequilibria

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 4509-4523

  Ortiz, J D ^a,b   Mix, A C ^a   Rugh, W ^a   Watkins, J M ^a   Collier, R W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEEP-SEA ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FORAMINIFERA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PLANKTIC ASSEMBLAGE; PLANKTONIC FAUNA;

PACIFIC, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0030434529     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(96)00256-6     Document Type: Article

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