Shell of the Great Scallop Pecten maximus as a high-frequency archive of paleoenvironmental changes

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Chauvaud, Laurent ^a   Lorrain, Anne ^b   Dunbar, Robert B ^c   Paulet, Yves Marie ^a   Thouzeau, Gérard ^a   Jean, Frédéric ^a   Guarini, Jean Marc ^d   Mucciarone, David ^c  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Biogenic calcite; Bivalve; Isotopes; Oxygen; Shell growth rate; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449206090     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000890     Document Type: Article

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