Past temperature and δ18O of surface ocean waters inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6785, 2000, Pages 442-445

  Elderfield, H ^a,b   Ganssen, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; METABOLISM; PLANKTON; SEA; TEMPERATURE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CLIMATE; MAGNESIUM; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; TEMPERATURE;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SALINITY; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034713009     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35013033     Document Type: Article

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