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Science 4 December 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3388, p. 1576
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3388.1576
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Oxygen Isotope Paleotemperature Determinations of Australian Cainozoic Fossils

F. H. DORMAN 1 and EDMUND D. GILL 2

1 Chemical Research Laboratories, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
2 National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne

Fossil marine shells collected in southern Victoria within half a degree of latitude of 38frac12°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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