oxygen isotope ratio

chemistry

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Pleistocene Epoch

  • Wisconsin glaciation
    In Pleistocene Epoch: Marine oxygen isotope record

    … record is based on the ratio of two oxygen isotopes, oxygen-16 (16O) and oxygen-18 (18O), which is determined on calcium carbonate from shells of microfossils that accumulated year by year on the seafloor. The ratio depends on two factors, the temperature and the isotopic composition of the seawater

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