Fine-fraction carbonate stable isotopes as indicators of seasonal shallow mixed-layer paleohydrography

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 317-342

  Ennyu, Atsuhito ^a   Arthur, Michael A ^b   Pagani, Mark ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccoliths; Miocene; Nannofossils; Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes; Planktic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; COCCOLITH; MIOCENE; MIXED LAYER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBOQUADRINA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0036842633     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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