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Oxygen Isotope Constraints on Surface Ocean Temperatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker*
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Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
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Abstract

Published oxygen isotope results from benthic and planktonic foraminifera are used to constrain the extent to which surface ocean temperatures in the tropics changed between glacial and interglacial time. The possible impacts of bioturbation and of the redistribution of 18O/16O ratios within the sea, putting aside the oxygen isotope results, are consistent with the CLIMAP project conclusion that tropical ocean temperatures remained within ±2°C of their present value.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 121 - 134
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University of Washington

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