Skeletal microstructure and stable isotope signature of three bathyal solitary cold-water corals from the Azores

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 373, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-38

  Marali, Soraya ^a   Wisshak, Max ^a   López Correa, Matthias ^b   Freiwald, André ^a,c  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caryophyllia; Desmophyllum; Lines technique; Stenocyathus; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CORAL; DATA PROCESSING; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SKELETON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE;

AZORES; FAIAL; PORTUGAL;

ANTHOZOA; CARYOPHYLLIA; CARYOPHYLLIA CYATHUS; CYATHUS; DESMOPHYLLUM; DESMOPHYLLUM CRISTAGALLI; SCLERACTINIA; STENOCYATHUS; STENOCYATHUS VERMIFORMIS;

EID: 84874224263     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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