Stable isotopes (delta O-18 and delta C-13), trace and minor element compositions of Recent scleractinians and Last Glacial bivalves at the Santa Maria di Leuca deep-water coral province, Ionian Sea

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2010

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Correa, Matthias López
Montagna, Paolo
Vendrell-Simon, Begona
McCulloch, Malcolm
Taviani, Marco

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

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The aragonitic skeletons of bathyal cold-water corals have a high potential as geochemical in situ archives for paleoceanography. Oxygen isotopes and stable carbon isotopes (δ18O and δ13C) have been analyzed, as well as trace and minor element compositi

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Keywords: Adriatic; Biological fractionation; Bottom water; Central Mediterranean; Cold-water corals; Coral growth; Deepwater; Dissolved inorganic carbon; Dissolved inorganic nutrients; Environmental conditions; Environmental parameter; Equilibrium value; Gaussian Cold-water corals; Lophelia pertusa; Stable isotopes; Trace elements; Vital effects

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Deep-Sea Research Part II: Tropical studies in oceanography

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2037-12-31