Global cooling inferred from dropstones in the Cretaceous: Fact or wishful thinking?

Terra Nova

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 182-185

  Bennett, Matthew R ^a   Doyle, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DROPSTONE; GLOBAL COOLING; ICE BUILDUP; ICE RAFTING; PALAEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0029752449     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1996.tb00742.x     Document Type: Article

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