Relationships between bottom water carbonate saturation and element/Ca ratios in coretop samples of the benthic foraminifera Oridorsalis umbonatus

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3029-3045

  Dawber, C F ^a   Tripati, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CALCITE; CALCIUM; CARBONATE; GROWTH RATE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84880905431     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-3029-2012     Document Type: Article

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