Postdepositional oxic degradation of alkenones: Implications for the measurement of palaeo sea surface temperatures

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 42-49

  Hoefs, Marcel J L ^a,b   Versteegh, Gerard J M ^a   Rijpstra, W Frene C ^a   De Leeuw, Jan W ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Netherlands Institute for Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031835885     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97PA02893     Document Type: Article

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