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 …

The Mediterranean climate as a template for Mediterranean marine ecosystems: the example of the northeast Spanish littoral

CM Duarte, S Agustı, H Kennedy, D Vaqué - Progress in Oceanography, 1999 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean climate exerts a major influence on the basic properties of the
Mediterranean Sea, which constrains the structure and dynamics of the ecosystem …

Isotope paleontology: growth and composition of extant calcareous species

G Wefer, WH Berger - Marine geology, 1991 - Elsevier
Isotope paleontology uses the isotopic composition of fossil remains of organisms to make
inferences about the physical surroundings of growth of the organisms (especially …

Bivalve skeletons record sea-surface temperature and δ18O via Mg/Ca and 18O/16O ratios

RT Klein, KC Lohmann, CW Thayer - Geology, 1996 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Paleotemperatures have been widely deduced from skeletal 18O/16O ratios, but these are
also dependent on salinity. Without an independent measure of salinity, 18O/16O ratios …

Ecological and paleoenvironmental information using stable isotope profiles from living and fossil molluscs

DE Krantz, DF Williams, DS Jones - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 1987 - Elsevier
Stable oxygen and carbon isotopic profiles from Recent specimens of Spisula solidissima
and Placopecten magellanicus collected off the Virginia coast are used to calibrate annual …

[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 …

δ13C variation in scallop shells: increasing metabolic carbon contribution with body size?

A Lorrain, YM Paulet, L Chauvaud, R Dunbar… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2004 - Elsevier
We examined δ13C values of shallow and deep-water scallop shells as well as δ13C of
dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from the Bay of Brest in western Brittany. Time series of …

Stable carbon isotopic composition of Mytilus edulis shells: relation to metabolism, salinity, δ13CDIC and phytoplankton

DP Gillikin, A Lorrain, S Bouillon, P Willenz… - Organic …, 2006 - Elsevier
Bivalve shells can potentially record the carbon isotopic signature of dissolved inorganic
carbon (δ13CDIC) in estuarine waters, thereby providing information about past estuarine …

Profiles of strontium and barium in Mercenaria mercenaria and Spisula solidissima shells

HA Stecher III, DE Krantz, CJ Lord III… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 1996 - Elsevier
Cross sections of two Mercenaria mercenaria shells, one modern and one Pleistocene, and
one modern Spisula solidissima shell were analyzed for trace metals using laser ablation …

The long‐lived mollusc Arctica islandica: A new paleoceanographic tool for the reconstruction of bottom temperatures for the continental shelves of the northern North …

CR Weidman, GA Jones, Kyger - Journal of Geophysical …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The carbonate shell of the bivalve Arctica islandica has been recognized, for more than a
decade, as a potentially important marine geochemical biorecorder owing to this species' …