The middle Miocene climatic transition: East Antarctic ice sheet development, deep ocean circulation and global carbon cycling

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 1994, Pages 537-555

  Flower, Benjamin P ^a   Kennett, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET DEVELOPMENT; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0028259761     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(94)90251-8     Document Type: Article

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