The Use of Deep-Sea Corals as Paleoceanographic Monitors

• Main Author: Smith, Jodie
• Other Authors: Schwarcz, Henry P., Geology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Geology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Norwegian Sea; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Orphan Knoll; Antarc*; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/5735

The study of past ocean processes is essential to the understanding of current oceanography and climate systems, and to the prediction of future global change. The study of paleoceanography requires proxies: to date many studies have used foraminifera and reef corals. Each of these tools, however, h...