Biological oxygen productivity during the last 60,000 years from triple oxygen isotope measurements

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 3-1-3-13

  Blunier, Thomas ^a   Barnett, Bruce ^a   Bender, Michael L ^a   Hendricks, Melissa B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GISP2; Oxygen isotopes; Past oxygen productivity; Respiration; SIPLE ice cores; Stratospheric isotope exchange

Indexed keywords

ICE CORE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0036770778     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gb001460     Document Type: Article

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