Amino acid racemization in mono-specific foraminifera from Quaternary deep-sea sediments

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-61

  Kaufman, Darrell S ^a   Cooper, Katherine ^a   Behl, Richard ^b   Billups, Katharina ^c   Bright, Jordon ^d   Gardner, Karleen ^a   Hearty, Paul ^e   Jakobsson, Martin ^f   Mendes, Isabel ^g   O'Leary, Michael ^h   Polyak, Leonid ⁱ   Rasmussen, Tine ^j   Rosa, Francisca ^g   Schmidt, Matthew ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^h CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Foraminifera; Marine sediment; Quaternary geochronology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DATING METHOD; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; FORAMINIFERA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RACEMIZATION; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 84877113496     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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