Towards a better understanding of magnesium-isotope ratios from marine skeletal carbonates

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6134-6146

  Hippler, Dorothee ^a   Buhl, Dieter ^b   Witbaard, Rob ^c   Richter, Detlev K ^b   Immenhauser, Adrian ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CARBONATE PLATFORM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGNESIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; SEAWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; ECHINOIDA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 69849112081     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.07.031     Document Type: Article

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