Date Created : 2003/2005

Accessibility : Open to all

Project summary : The oceans play a central role in modulating the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Indicators of the chemistry of past oceans and the variation of global climate over Earth history are locked up in the patterns of the element and isotope partitioning into the biomineral shells of foraminifera corals and similar organisms. We propose to determine why element partitioning at the mineral surface is correlated with the global environment, rather than simply how it is correlated.