Eocene seasonality and seawater alkaline earth reconstruction using shallow-dwelling large benthic foraminifera

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 381, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-115

  Evans, David ^a   Müller, Wolfgang ^a   Oron, Shai ^b,c   Renema, Willem ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deep time; Eocene; LA ICPMS; Large benthic foraminifera; Mg Ca; Nummulites; Operculina; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DEEP-TIME; EOCENE; LA-ICPMS; NUMMULITES; OPERCULINA; SEASONALITY;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; HOUSING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALKALINITY; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; MIXING RATIO; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEAWATER; UPPER OCEAN;

BARTONIA; FORAMINIFERA; NUMMULITES; NUMMULITIDAE; OPERCULINA (FORAMINIFERIDA); OPERCULINA AMMONOIDES;

EID: 84884231168     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.035     Document Type: Article

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