Passive margin uplift around the North Atlantic region and its role in Northern Hemisphere late Cenozoic glaciation

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-106

  Eyles, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; TECTONICS;

CLIMATE COOLING; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; THERMAL BUOYANCY; CLIMATIC MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALBEDO; BUOYANCY; CENOZOIC; COALESCENCE; COOLING; GLACIATION; MAGMATISM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PASSIVE MARGIN; UNDERPLATING; UPLIFT; CAINOZOIC; GLOBAL COOLING; PALAEOCLIMATE; PASSIVE MARGINS; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANADA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; (NORTH); ATLANTIC;

EID: 0029730484     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0103:PMUATN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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