Oxygen and carbon isotopes from calcareous nannofossils as paleoceanographic indicators.

Autor: Margolis SV, Kroopnick PM, Goodney DE, Dudley WC, Mahoney ME
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.) [Science] 1975 Aug 15; Vol. 189 (4202), pp. 555-7.
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4202.555
Abstrakt: Oxygen-18 and carbon-13 analyses of well-preserved calcareous nannofossils have been compared with those of foraminifera contained in Cenozoic cores collected in the Southern Ocean during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The results indicate that calcareous nannofossils deposit calcium carbonate at or near equilibrium with oceanic surface waters and that they can be used as paleotemperature indicators.
Databáze: MEDLINE