Oxygen Isotope Paleotemperature Determinations of Australian Cainozoic Fossils

4 December 1959

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 130 (3388) , 1576
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.130.3388.1576

Abstract

Fossil marine shells collected in southern Victoria within half a degree of latitude of 38½°S have been analyzed for O¹⁸/O¹⁶ by mass spectroscopy, and their paleotemperatures have been determined. For the genera Chlamys, Ostrea, and Glycymeris the temperature rises from early to mid-Tertiary, then falls again to the present.

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