Geochemistry of foraminifera from sediment cores of the central California margin

• Main Authors: van Geen, Alexander, Fairbanks, Richard G, Dartnell, Peter, McGann, Mary L, Gardner, James V, Kashgarian, Michaele
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1996
• Subjects: F2-92-P3; F8-90-G21; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Columbia University; LDEO; Pacific Ocean; PC; Piston corer; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.729962; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.729962

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