Can oxygen isotopes from turtle bone be used to reconstruct paleoclimates?

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 24-34

  Matson, Samuel D ^a   Fox, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CARBONATE; COEXISTENCE; FOSSIL; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHATE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TURTLE;

CLARKS FORK BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EMYDIDAE; LEPISOSTEIDAE; MAMMALIA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39549090621     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-049r     Document Type: Article

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