Cenozoic seawater Sr/Ca evolution

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sosdian, Sindia M ^a,b   Lear, Caroline H ^a   Tao, Kai ^c   Grossman, Ethan L ^c   O'Dea, Aaron ^d   Rosenthal, Yair ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

gastropods; seawater chemistry; strontium.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868018424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004240     Document Type: Article

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