Amino acid geochronology of individual foraminifer (Pulleniatina obliquiloculata) tests, north Queensland margin, Australia: A new approach to correlating and dating Quaternary tropical marine sediment cores

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Hearty, Paul J ^a   O'Leary, Michael J ^b   Kaufman, Darrell S ^c   Page, Michael C ^b   Bright, Jordon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Foraminifera; Geochronology; Marine sediment; Quaternary stratigraphy; Queensland margin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHRONOLOGY; FORAMINIFERA; QUATERNARY; RACEMIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

FORAMINIFERA; PULLENIATINA; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 15944394773     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004PA001059     Document Type: Article

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