Ocean temperatures and isotopic compositions through time

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 1989, Pages 183-192

  Hudson, J D ^a   Anderson, T F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

oxygen isotopes; palaeoceanography; palaeoclimates

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0024912112     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300028625     Document Type: Article

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