Monthly Strontium/Calcium oscillations in symbiotic coral aragonite: Biological effects limiting the precision of the paleotemperature proxy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Meibom, Anders ^a   Stage, Morten ^b   Wooden, Joseph ^c   Constantz, Brent R ^a   Dunbar, Robert B ^a   Owen, Art ^a   Grumet, Nancy ^a   Bacon, Charles R ^c   Chamberlain, C Page ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geoteknisk Institut   (Denmark)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; OSCILLATIONS; STRONTIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBONATE MINERALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; TISSUE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); ANALYTICAL PRECISION; CORAL PORITES LUTEA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ION MICROPROBE ANALYSIS; PALEOTEMPERATURE PROXY; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

GEOPHYSICS; STRONTIUM;

ARAGONITE; CALCIUM; CORAL RECORD; LUNAR CYCLE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES LUTEA;

EID: 0141427609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016864     Document Type: Article

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