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    Seasonality and stable isotopes in planktonic foraminifera off Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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    Date
    2005-07-18
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    Keigwin, Lloyd D.  Concept link
    Bice, Marley  Concept link
    Copley, Nancy J.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/252
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    https://doi.org/10.1029/2005PA001150
    DOI
    10.1029/2005PA001150
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     Plankton tow; Foraminifera; Stable isotopes 
    Abstract
    Monthly samples of stratified plankton tows taken from the slope waters off Cape Cod nearly 25 years ago are used to describe the seasonal succession of planktonic foraminifera and their oxygen isotope ratios. The 15°C seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) accounts for a diverse mixture of tropical to subpolar species. Summer samples include various Globigerinoides and Neogloboquadrina dutertrei, whereas winter and early spring species include Globigerina bulloides and Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (dextral). Globorotalia inflata lives all year but at varying water depths. Compared with the fauna in 1960–1961 (described by R. Cifelli), our samples seem warmer. Because sea surface salinity varies little during the year, δ18O is mostly a function of SST. Throughout the year, there are always species present with δ18O close to the calculated isotopic equilibrium of carbonate with surface seawater. This raises the possibility that seasonality can be estimated directly from the range of δ18O in a sediment sample provided that the δ18O-salinity relationship is the same as today.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2005. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Paleoceanography 20 (2005): PA4011, doi:10.1029/2005PA001150.
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    Paleoceanography 20 (2005): PA4011
     

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