Combined carbonate carbon isotopic and cellular ultrastructural studies of individual benthic foraminifera: 2. Toward an understanding of apparent disequilibrium in hydrocarbon seeps

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Bernhard, Joan M ^a   Martin, Jonathan B ^b   Rathburn, Anthony E ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIVALVE; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; CYTOPLASM; DATA SET; DISEQUILIBRIUM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FORAMINIFERA; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROCARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMBIONT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78049331532     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001930     Document Type: Article

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