[PDF][PDF] Open water processes of the San Francisco Estuary: from physical forcing to biological responses

W Kimmerer - San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2004 - escholarship.org
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the open waters of the San Francisco
Estuary. This estuary is well known for the extent to which it has been altered through loss of …

Elemental proxies for paleosalinity analysis of ancient shales and mudrocks

W Wei, TJ Algeo - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Salinity is a fundamental property of watermasses that is useful in paleoenvironmental and
paleoecological studies, yet the theory of application of geochemical proxies to paleosalinity …

Deciphering temperature seasonality in Earth's ancient oceans

LC Ivany, EJ Judd - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ongoing global warming due to anthropogenic climate change has long been recognized,
yet uncertainties regarding how seasonal extremes will change in the future persist …

[PDF][PDF] 7.07 Use of stable isotopes to understand food webs and ecosystem functioning in estuaries

S Bouillon, RM Connolly, DP Gillikin - Treatise on estuarine and coastal …, 2011 - Citeseer
Stable isotopes have been extensively used to trace element cycles and their incorporation
into food webs. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the principles of using stable …

A large metabolic carbon contribution to the δ13C record in marine aragonitic bivalve shells

DP Gillikin, A Lorrain, L Meng, F Dehairs - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2007 - Elsevier
It is well known that the incorporation of isotopically light metabolic carbon (CM) significantly
affects the stable carbon isotope (δ13C) signal recorded in biogenic carbonates. This can …

Variability of foraminiferal stable isotope ratios in Caribbean shallow waters of Panama: A modern framework for Neogene studies

LS Collins, DH Geary, EL Grossman - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxygen and carbon isotope analyses of the foraminifera Orbulina universa (planktic),
Uvigerina peregrina (benthic) and Cibicides pachyderma (benthic) in 45 bottom samples …

Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and stable isotopes in modern and Holocene Protothaca staminea shells from a northern California coastal upwelling region

RK Takesue, A van Geen - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2004 - Elsevier
This study explores the potential of intertidal Protothaca staminea shells as high-resolution
geochemical archives of environmental change in a coastal upwelling region. Mg/Ca and …

Assessing the reproducibility and reliability of estuarine bivalve shells (Saxidomus giganteus) for sea surface temperature reconstruction: implications for paleoclimate …

DP Gillikin, F De Ridder, H Ulens, M Elskens… - Palaeogeography …, 2005 - Elsevier
Studies using oxygen isotopes (δ18O) of mollusk shells to determine paleotemperature
need to assume water δ18O values, which could severely influence calculated …

Environmental controls on the stable isotopic composition of Mercenaria mercenaria: Potential application to paleoenvironmental studies

M Elliot, PB Demenocal, BK Linsley… - Geochemistry …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We have investigated the environmental controls of seasonally resolved records of oxygen
and carbon isotopes of modern Mercenaria mercenaria bivalves collected live from five …

Thermophysiologies of Jurassic marine crocodylomorphs inferred from the oxygen isotope composition of their tooth apatite

N Séon, R Amiot, JE Martin… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Teleosauridae and Metriorhynchidae were thalattosuchian crocodylomorph clades that
secondarily adapted to marine life and coexisted during the Middle to Late Jurassic. While …