Factors Affecting the Aragonite: Calcite Ratios in Carbonate-Secreting Marine Organisms
- 1 May 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Geology
- Vol. 62 (3) , 284-322
- https://doi.org/10.1086/626163
Abstract
Since this ratio is used as an indicator of temperature at time of shell deposition, it is important to have accurate information about possible factors influencing it. Many analyses are given of mollusks and tube-building worms.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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