Fossil corals as an archive of secular variations in seawater chemistry since the Mesozoic

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 188-208

  Gothmann, Anne M ^a   Stolarski, Jarosław ^b   Adkins, Jess F ^c   Schoene, Blair ^a   Dennis, Kate J ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^d   Mazur, Maciej ^e   Bender, Michael L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORAL; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SEAWATER; SECULAR VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84928317992     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.018     Document Type: Article

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