Chapter eighteen the use of oxygen and carbon isotopes of foraminifera in paleoceanography

AC Ravelo, C Hillaire-Marcel - Developments in marine geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the factors that must be taken into account when
interpreting paleoceanographic records derived from measurements of the oxygen and …

Reevaluation of the oxygen isotopic composition of planktonic foraminifera: Experimental results and revised paleotemperature equations

BE Bemis, HJ Spero, J Bijma, DW Lea - Paleoceanography, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Cultured planktonic foraminifera, Orbulina universa (symbiotic) and Globigerina bulloides
(nonsymbiotic), are used to reexamine temperature: δ18O relationships at 15°–25° C …

Oceanic anoxic events and plankton evolution: Biotic response to tectonic forcing during the mid‐Cretaceous

RM Leckie, TJ Bralower, R Cashman - Paleoceanography, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Mid‐Cretaceous (Barremian‐Turonian) plankton preserved in deep‐sea marl, organic‐rich
shale, and pelagic carbonate hold an important record of how the marine biosphere …

Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period

MW Wara, AC Ravelo, ML Delaney - Science, 2005 - science.org
During the warm early Pliocene (∼ 4.5 to 3.0 million years ago), the most recent interval with
a climate warmer than today, the eastern Pacific thermocline was deep and the average …

Indian Summer Monsoon variability 140–70 thousand years ago based on multi-proxy records from the Bay of Bengal

K Nilsson-Kerr, P Anand, PF Sexton, MJ Leng… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Understanding the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) behaviour during the late
Pleistocene has been largely based on the wind-driven upwelling records from the Arabian …

Correlated millennial-scale changes in surface hydrography and terrigenous sediment yield inferred from last-glacial marine deposits off northeastern Brazil

HW Arz, J Pätzold, G Wefer - Quaternary research, 1998 - Elsevier
The stable isotope composition of planktonic foraminifera correlates with evidence for pulses
of terrigenous sediment in a sediment core from the upper continental slope off northeastern …

The South China sea: paleoceanography and sedimentology

Z Ding - 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …

Traditional and emerging geochemical proxies in foraminifera

ME Katz, BS Cramer, A Franzese… - The Journal of …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Geochemical analyses of the carbonate tests calcified by foraminifera have provided much
of the foundation for reconstructions of past ocean and climate conditions, and for …

Global climate instability reflected by Eastern Mediterranean marine records during the late Holocene

B Schilman, M Bar-Matthews, A Almogi-Labin… - Palaeogeography …, 2001 - Elsevier
Extremely high sediment accumulation rates in the southeastern (SE) Mediterranean off
Israel make this region ideal for high-resolution paleoceanographic reconstructions. Two …

Multispecies approach to reconstructing eastern equatorial Pacific thermocline hydrography during the past 360 kyr

HJ Spero, KM Mielke, EM Kalve, DW Lea… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope data from eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) core TR163‐19 (2° 15′ N, 90°
57′ W, 2348 m) are presented for the surface‐dwelling foraminifers Globigerinoides ruber …