Potassium and other minor elements in Porites corals: Implications for skeletal geochemistry and paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 671-681

  Mitsuguchi, T ^a   Kawakami, T ^b  

^a Institute for Carbonate Geochemistry   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coral skeleton; Magnesium; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Potassium; Sodium; Strontium

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MAGNESIUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POTASSIUM; RECONSTRUCTION; SKELETON; SODIUM; STRONTIUM;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 84865613823     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-012-0902-3     Document Type: Article

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