Abstract:Temperature, together with salinity, determines the density of seawater, and therefore, it strongly influences its circulation and sinking characteristics.
In turn, the important role oceanic circulation and deep‐water formation play in past, present, and future climatic change lend a special significance to the estimate of past seawater temperature.
As the past values of this important climatic variable in the distant, geological past are impossible to measure directly, a variety of indire… Show more
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