Table of Contents

Introduction: Paleoceanography, Tracers, Proxies and Methods

Part 1 : Deep Sea Sediment Properties
1. Deep-Sea Sediment Deposits and Properties Controlled by Currents
2. Continuous Physical Properties of Cored Marine Sediments
3. Magnetic Stratigraphy in Paleoceanography: Reversals, Excursions, Paleointensity and Secular Variation
4. Clay Minerals, Deep Circulation and Climate
5. Radiocarbon Dating of Deep-Sea Sediments

Part 2: Biological Tracers and Bomarkers
6. Planktonic Foraminifera as Tracers of Past Oceanic Environments
7. Paleoceanographical Proxies Based on Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblage Characteristics
8. Diatoms: From Micropaleontology to Isotope Geochemistry
9. Organic-Walled Dinoflagellate Cysts: Tracers of Sea-Surface Conditions
10. Coccolithophores: From Extant Populations to Fossil Assemblages
11. Biomarkers as Paleoceanographic Proxies
12. Deep-Sea Corals: New Insights to Paleoceanography
13. Transfer Functions - Methods for Quantitative Paleoceanography Based on Microfossils

Part 3: Geochemical Tracers
14. Elemental Proxies for Palaeoclimatic and Palaeoceanographic Variability in Marine Sediments: Interpretation and Application
15. Isotopic Tracers of Water Masses and Deep Currents
16. Paleoflux and Paleocirculation from Sediment 230Th and 231Pa/230Th
17. Boron Isotopes in Marine Carbonate Sediments and the pH of the Ocean
18. The Use of Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes of Foraminifera in Paleoceanography
19. Elemental Proxies for Reconstructing Cenozoic Seawater Paleotemperatures from Calcareous Fossils

Conclusion: Reconstructing and Modelling Past Oceans

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