Stable Isotope Studies Yield New Clues About Ice Ages

[Oxytropidoceras]

Oxygen Analysis in Ancient Plankton Fossils Offers

New Clues about Ice Ages, Nature News, April 17, 2014

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6647/20140417/oxygen-analysis-in-ancient-plankton-fossils-offers-new-clues-about-ice-ages.htm

Study provides crucial new information about how

the ice ages came about Eureka! Science News

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/04/16/study.provides.crucial.new.information.about.how.ice.ages.came.about

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-04/uos-spc041414.php

5.3 Million Years of Sea Level Change on One

Cliff Face by Brandon Keim, Wired, April 17, 2014

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/deep-sea-temperature-record-grawk/

A 5.3-million-year record of sea level and

temperature, Phys.org., April 16, 2014

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-million-year-sea-temperature.html

The paper is:

Rohling, E. J., G. L. Foster, K. M. Grant, G. Marino

A. P. Roberts, M. E. Tamisiea, and F. Williams, 2014,

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over

the past 5.3 million years. Nature. Published

online 16 April 2014

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13230.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras