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    TEX86 is an organic paleothermometer based upon the membrane lipids of mesophilic marine Nitrososphaerota (formerly "Thaumarchaeota", "Marine Group 1...
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  • in Earth history. Some structural forms of GDGT form the basis for the TEX86 paleothermometer. Isoprenoid GDGTs, now known to be synthesized by many...
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  • for hundreds of millions of years in the environment. It is part of the TEX86 paleothermometer, a temperature proxy for sea surface temperatures that...
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    Aptian tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were 27–32 °C, based on TEX86 measurements from the equatorial Pacific. During the Aptian, Milankovitch...
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    subtropical dinoflagellates (Apectodinium spp.}, and a marked increase in TEX86. The latter record is intriguing, though, because it suggests a 6 °C (11 °F)...
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    tropics that would require much higher average temperatures to sustain them. TEX86 BAYSPAR measurements indicate extremely high sea surface temperatures of...
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  • on empirically-calibrated proxy relationships, such as the tree ring or TEX86 methods. Isotope methods, such as the δ18O method or the clumped-isotope...
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    excursion was detected. In 2007, chemical markers of surface temperature (TEX86) had also indicated that warming occurred around 3,000 years before the...
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    from marine sediments can be used to reconstruct past temperatures via the TEX86 paleotemperature proxy, as these lipids vary in structure according to temperature...
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  • GDGTs in the Stratified Marine Water Column: Implications for GDGT-Based TEX86 Paleothermometry". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021...
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  • 2017). "Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes". Earth-Science Reviews. 172:...
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    2017). "Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes". Earth-Science Reviews. 172:...
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  • has worked with geochemical proxies such as marine sediments, mud, and TEX86, to study past climate in East Africa. Her papers have been cited more than...
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    "Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates". Geochimica et Cosmochimica...
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    ocean temperature and climate evolution of the western Antarctic Peninsula. TEX86 proxy analysis of sediments from the western Antarctic Peninsula continental...
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