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| Duplessy, Jc; Labeyrie, L; Juilletleclerc, A; Maitre, F; Duprat, J; Sarnthein, M. |
| We have developed a new method to reconstruct surface water salinity of the North Atlantic Ocean, based on a comparison between transfer function estimates of sea surface temperature and the oxygen isotope ratio of two common planktonic foraminiferal species, N. pachyderma (left coiling) and G. bulloides. We first used core-top analyses to demonstrate that, under modern conditions, the paleotemperatures determined from the isotopic composition of foraminiferal shells are linearly linked to the summer sea surface temperature only within a certain temperature range, characteristic of each species, which is termed the "optimum temperature range". We then used this information to derive an estimate of the isotopic composition and salinity of the North Atlantic... |
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Palavras-chave: PALEO-OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SALINITY; ATLANTIC OCEAN. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21261/18872.pdf |
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| Juilletleclerc, A; Montaggioni, Lf; Pichon, M; Gattuso, Jp. |
| Oxygen isotope ratios were measured along the growth axis of branches of the scleractinian coral Acropora formosa collected at 2 and 12 metre depths at Yonge reef (Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia). Measurements were made between two reference points separated by a distance corresponding to a growth period of six months, from mid-winter to mid-summer. For each of the two reference points, information concerning the environmental parameters controlling the development of the coral colonies was collected in situ. The variability of the isotopic values recorded from coral skeletons grown in identical physical and chemical conditions cannot be ascribed to technical problems, but may rather be induced by calcification mechanisms. In order to define the... |
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| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00093/20423/18090.pdf |
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