Peer-reviewed articlePublished in United States · Academic
Strontium contents of a Porites coral from Xisha Island, South China Sea: A proxy for sea‐surface temperature of the 20th century
Yali Sun, Min Sun, Gangjian Wei, Typhoon Lee, Baofu Nie, Zhiwei Yu · Paleoceanography, 2004
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The study compares strontium in Paracel Islands coral skeletons with observed sea temperature. The authors use that relationship to reconstruct twentieth-century temperature variation.