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MIT OpenCourseWare
Paleoceanography
- Instructor
- Prof. Edward Boyle
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 6 problem sets · 1 lecture note · 39 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.740 Paleoceanography, Spring 2008, Prof. Edward Boyle — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
31 files
- Deep-ocean Paleoceanography and Ocean Chemistry: Links to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Carbon-14/Carbon-12 Download
- Oxygen Isotope Paleoclimatology Download
- Oxygen Isotope Paleoclimatology Download
- Oxygen-isotope paleothermometry Download
- Oxygen isotope paleothermometry Download
- Paleo-ecological temperature estimation Download
- Paleo-ecological Temperature Estimates Download
- Fundamentals of Factor Analysis: Satellite Image Download
- Sea-level and Climate Change: Coral Reefs On Stable and Emerging Islands Download
- Coastline evidence for sea level change Download
- Glacial/interglacial 'Oscillations': Why? Time-series Analysis Download
- Glacial/Interglacial ‘oscillations’: WHY? Time-series analysis Download
- Ice Core Evidence for Climate Change Download
- Ice Core Paleoclimatology I Download
- Ice Core Evidence for Climate Change (cont.) Download
- Ice Core Paleoclimatology II: gases Download
- Ice Core Paleoclimatology Ii: Solutes and Particulates Download
- Deep Ocean Paleoceanography Download
- Deep-ocean paleoceanography and ocean chemistry Download
- Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Ocean Chemistry, and Mechanisms of Climate Change Download
- Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ocean Chemistry Download
- Continental evidence for glacial climate change Download
- Continental Evidence for Glacial Climate Download
- Lifestyles of the Small and Calcareous Download
- Coral evidence for temperature, salinity, and nutrient changes Download
- Introduction to Cenozoic Palenoceanography Download
- Other Tracers Download
- Major Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Events of the Past 2 Million Years Download
- Paleoceanographic Tracers and Major Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimate Events of the Past 70 Million Years Download
- The Carbon-14 Story Download
- The Carbon-14 Story Download
Assignments
- Problem Set 1 Download
- Problem Set 2 Download
- Problem Set 3: Introduction to Ocean Box Modeling Download
Study Materials
- Introduction to Ocean Carbon System Box Models: The Toggweiler-Sarmiento 3-Box Model Download
- 3box_model_Glacial_rev11h_PC Download
- 3box_model_PreInd_rev11h_PC_ Download
- 3boxmodelGlacialrev11fMAC Download
- 3boxmodelPreIndrev11hMAC Download
- Model Color Coding Download
Other materials from this course
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Oxygen isotope paleoclimatology
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Lecture 3: Oxygen isotope paleothermometry
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Lecture 4: Paleo-ecological temperature estimates Fundamentals of factor analysis: satellite image
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Lecture 5: Sea-level and climate change: coral reefs on stable and emerging islands
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Lecture 6: Glacial/interglacial ‘oscillations’: why? time-series analysis
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Lecture 7: Ice core evidence for climate change
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Lecture 8: Ice core evidence for climate change (cont.)
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Lecture 9: Deep-ocean paleoceanography and ocean chemistry: links to atmospheric carbon dioxide and ¹⁴C/¹²C The ¹⁴C story
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Lecture 10: Atmospheric CO₂, ocean chemistry, and mechanisms of climate change
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Lecture 11: Continental evidence for glacial climate change
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Lecture 12: Lifestyles of the small and calcareous
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Lecture 13: Coral evidence for temperature, salinity, and nutrient changes
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Lecture 14: Introduction to cenozoic palenoceanography
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Lecture 15: Newer tracers
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