Improving coral-base paleoclimate reconstructions by replicating 350years of coral Sr/Ca variations

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 373, Issue , 2013, Pages 6-24

  DeLong, Kristine L ^a,d   Quinn, Terrence M ^b,c   Taylor, Frederick W ^b   Shen, Chuan Chou ^c   Lin, Ke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

230Th; New Caledonia; Oxygen isotopes; Porites; Sr Ca

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SKELETON; STRONTIUM; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA];

ANTHOZOA; PORITES; PORITES LUTEA;

EID: 84874273605     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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