Silicon-isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6703, 1998, Pages 680-683

  De La Rocha, C L ^a,c   Brzezinski, M A ^a   DeNiro, M J ^a   Shemesh, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; SILICON;

DIATOM; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; OPAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SILICON;

AGE; ARTICLE; DIATOM; GEOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0032531850     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27174     Document Type: Article

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