Isotopic composition of a large photosymbiotic foraminifer: Evidence for hypersaline environments across the Great Australian Bight during the late Pleistocene

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 113-120

  Rivers, John M ^a   Kyser, T Kurt ^b   James, Noel P ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australia; Marginopora; Salinity; Southern Ocean; Stable Isotope

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DEPOSITION; EVAPORATION; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMBIONT; TESTING METHOD; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT; INDIAN OCEAN;

CHONDRICHTHYES; FORAMINIFERA; MARGINOPORA; MARGINOPORA VERTEBRALIS;

EID: 61349123747     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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