Uranium-series dating and growth characteristics of the deep-sea scleractinian coral: Enallopsammia rostrata from the Equatorial Pacific

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2380-2395

  Houlbrèque, Fanny ^a,b   McCulloch, Malcolm ^c,d   Roark, Brendan ^e   Guilderson, Tom ^f   Meibom, Anders ^g   Kimball, Justine ^a   Mortimer, Graham ^c   Cuif, Jean Pierre ^h   Dunbar, Robert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; COLONY; CORAL; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; GROWTH RATE; PERIODICITY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

LINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

ANTHOZOA; DENDROIDEA; DENDROPHYLLIIDAE; ENALLOPSAMMIA ROSTRATA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; MADREPORA OCULATA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77649274312     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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