The potential of high resolution palaeoclimate reconstruction from Arctica islandica

• Main Author: Foster, Laura
• Other Authors: Allison, Nicola, Finch, Adrian Anthony
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of St Andrews 2008
• Subjects: Arctica islandica; Proxy; Trace elements; Oxygen isotopes; Carbon isotopes; Synchrotron; Mg; Sr; XAS; XANES; EXAFS; Palaeotemperature; QE721.2P3F7; Paleothermometry > Mathematical models; Ocean quahog; Oxygen > Isotopes; Carbon > Isotopes; Calcification; Irvine Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/411

The potential of Arctica islandica, a long lived marine bivalve with a lifespan of over 300 years, to reconstruct a high resolution (sub-annual) climate record is explored in this thesis. Fluctuations in trace element and isotopic data from live-collected specimens from Irvine Bay, NW Scotland are c...