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Reconstructing Pliocene West Pacific Warm Pool Hydroclimate Using In Situ Microanalyses on Fossil Planktic Foraminifer Shells
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2020
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Source: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(7)
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Journal Title:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
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Description:A controversial aspect of Pliocene (5.3 –2.6 Ma) climate is whether El Niño ‐like (El Padre) conditions, characterized by a reduced trans ‐equatorial sea ‐surface temperature (SST) gradient, prevailed across the Paci fic. Evidence for El Padre is chie fly based on reconstructions of sea ‐surface conditions derived from the oxygen isotope ( δ18O) and Mg/Ca compositions of shells belonging to the planktic foraminifer Trilobatus sacculifer . However, fossil shells of this species are a mixture of multiple carbonate phases —pre‐gametogenic, gametogenic (reproductive), and diagenetic calcites —that formed under different physiological and/or environmental conditions and are averaged in conventionalwhole ‐shell analyses. Through in situ measurements of micrometer ‐scale domains within Pliocene ‐aged
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Source:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(7)
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ISSN:2572-4517;2572-4525;
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