Shackleton, Nicholas

Following Emiliani s (1955) discovery, other laboratories established the capability to apply oxygen isotope variations to oceanic temperature history. It is worth a brief mention of two further major advances relevant to Urey s original conception. In 1967, Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University reported the first systematic down-core variations in benthic foraminifera (Shackleton, 1967). He argued that benthic fauna, because they lived in the near-freezing bottomwaters of the ocean, would mainly record... 

Pearson P. N., Ditchlield P. W., Singano J., Harcourt-Brown K. G., Nicholas C. J., Olsson R. K., Shackleton N. J., and HaUM. A. (2001) Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs. Nature 413(6855), 481-487. 

Shackleton, N.J., Nicholas, J., Berger, A. and Peltier, W.A., 1990, An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh -Earth Sciences, 81, 251 -261. 

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