Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1247-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1247-2022
Model description paper
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10 Feb 2022
Model description paper |  | 10 Feb 2022

ShellChron 0.4.0: a new tool for constructing chronologies in accretionary carbonate archives from stable oxygen isotope profiles

Niels J. de Winter

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ShellChron is a tool for determining the relative age of samples in carbonate (climate) archives based on the seasonal variability in temperature and salinity or precipitation recorded in stable oxygen isotope measurements. The model allows dating of fossil archives within a year, which is important for climate reconstructions on the sub-seasonal to decadal scale. In this paper, I introduce ShellChron and test it on a range of real and virtual datasets to demonstrate its use.
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