Field-based validation of a diagenetic effect on G. ruber Mg/Ca paleothermometry: Core top results from the Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean)

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kontakiotis, George ^a   Mortyn, P Graham ^b   Antonarakou, Assimina ^a   Martínez Botí, Miguel A ^b,c   Triantaphyllou, Maria V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calcite saturation state; eastern Mediterranean; G. ruber (w, sensu stricto); high Mg calcite diagenetic overgrowths; Mg Ca paleothermometry; palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE MINERALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHASE INTERFACES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DIAGENETICS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; G. RUBER (W, SENSU STRICTO); PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SATURATION STATE;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CALCITE; CALCIUM; DIAGENESIS; MAGNESIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SATURATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 80052764343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003692     Document Type: Article

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