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As mollusks grow, their shells become biogeochemical records of the environmental and climatic conditions experienced throughout their lifetime. Following the ideas developed in Chap. 8, in this chapter stable isotopes are treated in conjunction with individual growth in the selected fossil specimens of different bivalves.
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Gordillo, S., Bayer, M.S., Boretto, G., Charó, M. (2014). Sclerochronology. In: Mollusk shells as bio-geo-archives. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03476-8_9
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