“…Element / calcium ratios (E/Ca) of secreted biogenic calcium carbonate by marine organisms, such as foraminifera and corals, have been used as proxies for past environmental marine parameters (Hendy et al, 2002;Lea, 2003;Lea and Boyle, 1989;Linsley et al, 2000;Martin et al, 2002). Mg/Ca in foraminifera and Sr/Ca in corals have been frequently used to reconstruct water temperatures (Beck et al, 1992;Cohen et al, 2001Cohen et al, , 2002Lea, 2003;Rosenthal et al, 2006;Sinclair et al, 1998;Yu and Elderfield, 2008). In addition, Mg/Ca of ostracod shells has also provided valuable information about water temperatures (Chivas et al, 1983(Chivas et al, , 1986aDe Deckker and Forester, 1988;Dwyer et al, 2002).…”