A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ni, Yunyan ^a,b   Foster, Gavin L ^a   Bailey, Trevor ^c   Elliott, Tim ^a   Schmidt, Daniel N ^a   Pearson, Paul ^d   Haley, Brian ^a,e   Coath, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; FORAMINIFERA; GAMETOGENESIS; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PH; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER;

EID: 36749049710     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001337     Document Type: Article

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