Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the Western Arctic surface sediments: Implications for water mass distribution

• Main Authors: Wenshen, Xiao, Rujian, Wang, Xinrong, Cheng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2011
• Subjects: Fauna; Oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Advances in Polar Science; Anadyr'; Arctic Basin; Chukchi; Foraminifera*; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; Planktonic foraminifera; Polar Science; Alaska
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2430/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2430/1/A20110401.pdf

Neogloboquadrina pachyderma is the most abundant planktonic foraminifera species found in the modern polar oceans. The δ18O and δ13C of N. pachyderma from the Western Arctic Ocean sediments were analyzed to reveal the implications of the proxies to environmental changes. The ±18O from N. pachyderma...