Deep-Sea Corals: A New Oceanic Archive

Abstract

Deep-sea corals are an extraordinary new archive of deep ocean behavior. The species Desmophyllum cristagalli is a solitary coral composed of uranium rich, density banded aragonite that I have calibrated for several paleoclimate tracers. Using a newly developed ICP-MS age screening method, large numbers of samples can be processed relatively quickly and inexpensively to uncover interesting fossil corals for further analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA363389

Entities

People

  • Jess F. Adkins

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Drops
  • Ecology
  • Gases
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Isotopes
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Ridges
  • Sea Water
  • Seabed
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Oceanography.