Progress toward a multi-basin calibration for quantifying deep sea calcite preservation in the tropical/subtropical world ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 104-117

  Mekik, Figen ^a   Noll, Nathan ^a   Russo, Mary ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcite preservation; Deep sea; Multi basin calibration

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CALCITE DISSOLUTION; CORE-TOP SAMPLES; DEEP SEA; FORAMINIFERS; FRAGMENTATION INDEX; HIGHER LATITUDES; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE CARBONATES; MULTI-BASIN CALIBRATION; SATURATION STATE; SUBTROPICAL AREA; WORLD OCEAN;

CALCITE; CALIBRATION; CARBONATE MINERALS; DROPS; TROPICS;

DISSOLUTION;

BOTTOM WATER; CALCITE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DEEP SEA; DISSOLUTION; FORAMINIFERA; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN BASIN; PRESERVATION; SATURATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINA CONGLOBATUS; GLOBOROTALIA HIRSUTA; GLOBOROTALIA MENARDII; GLOBOROTALIA TRUNCATULINOIDES; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 78049300038     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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