Secondary calcification of the planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma as a climatic index
Oscillations in the ratio of two principal types of secondary calcification of the test surface in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma populations closely parallel paleoclimatic oscillations over the last 6 million years in a deep-sea core drilled in the temperate South Pacific. The nature of secondary calc...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
1974
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| Online Access: | http://repository.ias.ac.in/51157/ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/186/4164/630.short |
| Summary: | Oscillations in the ratio of two principal types of secondary calcification of the test surface in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma populations closely parallel paleoclimatic oscillations over the last 6 million years in a deep-sea core drilled in the temperate South Pacific. The nature of secondary calcification in fossil planktonic foraminifera represents a useful index in interpreting Cenozoic climates. |
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