Preservation of the alkenone paleotemperature proxy in uplifted marine sequences: A test from the Vrica outcrop, Crotone, Italy

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-182

  Cleaveland, Laura C ^a,b   Herbert, Timothy D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONES; BIOMARKER COMPOUNDS; BURIAL DEPTHS; CYCLICITY; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MARINE STRATA; MEAN VALUES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PALEOTEMPERATURE PROXY; PORE FLUIDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; WORLD OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EROSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ALKENONE; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRESERVATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; WEATHERING;

CALABRIA; CROTONE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69649092986     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25148A.1     Document Type: Article

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