Seasonal changes in sea surface temperature and salinity during the Little Ice Age in the Caribbean Sea deduced from Mg/Ca and 18O/16O ratios in corals

Marine Geology

Volumn 173, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 21-35

  Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c,e   Winter, Amos ^d   Oba, Tadamichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Corals; Little Ice Age; Montastrea; Oxygen isotopes; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

COMPOSITION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CORAL RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 0035868806     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00166-3     Document Type: Article

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