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When organisms living in seawater grow shells, the ratio between the isotopes of oxygen (18O/16O) trapped in their shell is dependent on the sea temperature. Why might geologists collect these sea shells from deep-sea sediments that are Pleistocene in age and measure their oxygen isotope ratios?
◦ The organisms live in the photic zone, and so photosynthesis must be the main factor in the oxygen content.
◦ The organisms live near the surface, so their oxygen isotope ratios record surface temperature during Earth's great climate fluctuations of the ice age.
◦ They might want to know how cold the water was at the seafloor in the past.
◦ They want to know how metabolism of the organism affects the oxygen isotope ratios.
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