Shifting ocean carbonate chemistry during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: Implications for deep-ocean Mg/Ca paleothermometry

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Peck, V L ^a   Yu, J ^b   Kender, S ^c   Riesselman, C R ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBONATE; DEEP SEA; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; THERMOCLINE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78649826863     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001906     Document Type: Article

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