Oxygen- Isotope Analysis

question 85

Multiple Choice

Oxygen- isotope analysis:

• A) is very simple.
• B) relies on the fact that ¹⁶O evaporates from the ocean more readily than ¹⁸O.
• C) has been shown to be of little or no use in the study of past climatic changes.
• D) cannot be carried out on ice cores or sea floor sediments, but works well for tree ring analysis.

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