Eocene sea temperatures for the mid-latitude southwest Pacific from Mg/Ca ratios in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 483-495

  Creech, John B ^a   Baker, Joel A ^a   Hollis, Christopher J ^b   Morgans, Hugh E G ^b   Smith, Euan G C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Early Eocene; EECO; Foraminifera; LA ICP MS; Mg Ca; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

EARLY EOCENE; EECO; FORAMINIFERA; LA-ICP-MS; MG/CA; PALEOCLIMATES;

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CALCIUM; EOCENE; ICE SHEET; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MAGNESIUM; MINERALIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CANTERBURY BASIN; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); SOUTH ISLAND; WAIPARA RIVER;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78049239045     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.039     Document Type: Article

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