OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN BIOGENIC SILICA - GLOBAL CHANGES IN OCEAN TEMPERATURE AND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION

被引:111
作者
SHEMESH, A [1 ]
CHARLES, CD [1 ]
FAIRBANKS, RG [1 ]
机构
[1] COLUMBIA UNIV, LAMONT DOHERTY GEOL OBSERV, PALISADES, NY 10964 USA
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D O I
10.1126/science.256.5062.1434
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A record of oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica from a deep-sea sediment core from the Southern Ocean reveals that marine diatoms retain their primary isotopic composition after burial. As a result, the marine diatom record can be combined with data on coexisting planktonic foraminifera to monitor past surface temperature and isotopic composition of seawater. The coupling of these two records allows the solution of two paleotemperature equations for each core interval. Data from a South Atlantic core show that the average delta-O-18 during the glacial period at this site was higher by about 1.3 per mil than average Holocene values, and that average glacial-age temperatures were not significantly different from average Holocene values.
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