Bamboo coral Ba/Ca: Calibration of a new deep ocean refractory nutrient proxy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 506-515

  LaVigne, Michèle ^a,b   Hill, Tessa M ^a,b   Spero, Howard J ^a   Guilderson, Thomas P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ba Ca; Barium; Climate; Deep sea corals; Intermediate waters; Silicate

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO CORALS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CALIFORNIA; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CATIONIC SUBSTITUTION; CLIMATE; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP-SEA CORALS; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; EXPORT PRODUCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISIDELLA; KERATOISIS; LINEAR CORRELATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SHALLOW WATERS; SURFACE OCEAN; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS;

BAMBOO; BARIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALIBRATION; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SEAWATER; SILICATES;

NUTRIENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BARIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALCIUM; CORAL; DECADAL VARIATION; FORAMINIFERA; INTERMEDIATE WATER; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SILICATE;

CALIFORNIA MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; ISIDELLA; KERATOISIS;

EID: 82155187092     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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