Assessing the applicability of Emiliania huxleyi coccolith morphology as a sea-surface salinity proxy

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1475-1480

  Fielding, Samuel R ^a   Herrle, Jens O ^a,b   Bollmann, Jörg ^c   Worden, Richard H ^a   Montagnes, David J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEDIMENT CORE;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 67949110950     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.5.1475     Document Type: Article

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