Computerized tomography and oxygen stable isotopic composition of Porites lutea skeleton at Mururoa (French Polynesia): Application to the study of solar radiation influence on annual coral growth;Tomodensimetrie et mesures du rapport isotopique 18O/16O Porites lutea a Mururoa (Polynesie francaise): Une nouvelle approche pour apprehender l'influence du rayonnement sur la croissance corallienne annuelle

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 320, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 659-665

  Bessat, Frédéric ^a   Boiseau, Muriel ^b   Juillet Leclerc, Anne ^b   Buigues, Danièle ^c   Salvat, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b Centre des Faibles Radioactivite   (France)

^c Lab de Detection et de Geophysique   (France)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Density pattern; Mururoa atoll; Porites; Radiation; Stable isotopic composition

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

CORAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORAL; FRENCH POLYNESIA; NONHUMAN; SOLAR RADIATION; TECHNIQUE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; MURUROA;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES; PORITES LUTEA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 0030694592     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(97)85700-9     Document Type: Article

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