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Science 21 June 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3834, pp. 1335 - 1336
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3834.1335
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Oxygen-Isotope Analysis of Recent Tropical Pacific Benthonic Foraminifera

P. B. Smith 1 and C. Emiliani 2

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
2 Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149

Analysis by the oxygen-isotope method of samples of benthonic Foraminifera, collected at different depths on the continental shelf and slope of western Cenitral America, yielded isotopic temperatures agreeing closely with the temperatures measured in the field. The validity of the oxygen-isotope method as a means of analysis of paleotemperatures is further supported.

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