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- noun Plural form of
alkenone .
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Examples
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Kim et al 2004 and Lorenz et al 2006, two articles by the same group, discuss Holocene SST changes based on alkenones.
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There is a huge amount of evidence from a variety of independent proxies pollen and plant macrofossil data on land, diatoms, forams and alkenones in the ocean that high-latitude northern summers were warmer in the early Holocene.
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Kim et al 2004 and Lorenz et al 2006, two articles by the same group, discuss Holocene SST changes based on alkenones.
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Pronounced occurrence of long-chain alkenones and dinosterol in a 25,000-year lipid molecular fossil record from Lake Titicaca, South America
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Further evaluation of long-chain alkenones as indicators of paleoceanographic conditions.
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The authors of this paper looked at isotopic signatures in organic compounds called alkenones.
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New methods using alkenones in marine sediments and coral studies are also described.
RealClimate 2009
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New methods using alkenones in marine sediments and coral studies are also described.
RealClimate 2009
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Of these, four paleothermometers were based on ecological principles and the study of the shells of microscopic organisms (planktonic foraminifera, diatoms, dinoflagellates and radiolaria); while the other two were geochemical and based on organic molecules (alkenones containing 37 carbon atoms) produced by unicellular algae or by metals found in the zooplankton shells
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2009
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New methods using alkenones in marine sediments and coral studies are also described.
RealClimate 2009
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