The timing of sea-level high-stands during Marine Isotope Stages 7.5 and 9: Constraints from the uranium-series dating of fossil corals from Henderson Island

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3598-3620

  Andersen, Morten B ^a,b   Stirling, Claudine H ^a,c   Potter, Emma Kate ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^a,d   Blake, Steve G ^e   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^f   Ayling, Bridget F ^f   O'Leary, Michael J ^g  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; FOSSIL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OPEN OCEAN; REEF FORMATION; SEA LEVEL; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

HENDERSON ISLAND; PITCAIRN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77952888027     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.020     Document Type: Article

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