Temperature-Shell-Growth Relations of Recent and Interglacial Pleistocene Shoal-Water Biota from Bermuda
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Geology
- Vol. 61 (5), 424-438
- https://doi.org/10.1086/626110
Abstract
This study is based on about 40 spp., almost all mollusks. Each sp. has a threshold limit for skeletal deposition, and this determines the temperature (temp.) at which shell will be formed. The determined average may vary a few degrees from the temp. of the locality and thus no one sp. can be used to determine average paleotemps. Fossils from interglacial Pleistocene deposits indicate a temp. within 1-2[degree]C of the present conditions.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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