B/Ca in planktonic foraminifera as a proxy for surface seawater pH

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Yu, Jimin ^a   Elderfield, Henry ^a   Hönisch, Bärbel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON ISOTOPE; DISSOLUTION; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PH; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA;

EID: 34249045622     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001347     Document Type: Article

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