Implications of seawater Mg/Ca variability for Plio-Pleistocene tropical climate reconstruction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 585-595

  Medina Elizalde, Martín ^a   Lea, David W ^a   Fantle, Matthew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alkenones; cold tongue; foraminiferal Mg Ca; greenhouse forcing; Pleistocene; Pliocene; seawater Mg Ca; SSTs; warm pool

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEAWATER; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOMETERS;

COLD TONGUE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; WARM POOL;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORAMINIFERA; GREENHOUSE GAS; MAGNESIUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER;

EID: 43249125407     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.014     Document Type: Article

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