Deep time foraminifera Mg/Ca paleothermometry: Nonlinear correction for secular change in seawater Mg/Ca

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Evans, David ^a   Mller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CENOZOIC; CORRECTION; LABORATORY METHOD; MAGNESIUM; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NONLINEARITY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEAWATER;

EID: 84869167164     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002315     Document Type: Article

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