Coral records of central tropical Pacific radiocarbon variability during the last millennium

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Zaunbrecher, Laura K ^a,b   Cobb, Kim M ^a   Beck, J Warren ^c   Charles, Christopher D ^d   Druffel, Ellen R M ^e   Fairbanks, Richard G ^f   Griffin, Sheila ^e   Sayani, Hussein R ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORAL RECORD; DECADAL VARIATION; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UPWELLING;

CHRISTMAS ISLAND;

ANTHOZOA; PALMYRA;

EID: 78649267415     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001788     Document Type: Article

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