Sr/Ca proxy sea-surface temperature reconstructions from modern and holocene montastraea faveolata specimens from the dry tortugas national park, Florida, U.S.A.

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 63, Issue SPL.ISSUE, 2013, Pages 20-31

  Flannery, Jennifer A ^a   Poore, Richard Z ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; Caribbean; Coral; paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; CORAL; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRONTIUM;

DRY TORTUGAS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879633464     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI63-003.1     Document Type: Article

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