Winter and summer temperatures of the early middle eocene of France from Turritella δ18O profiles

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1067-1070

  Andreasson, Fredrik P ^a   Schmitz, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MOLLUSCS; OXYGEN;

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; CARBON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC RECORD; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PRESENT SITUATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; CENOZOIC; PARIS BASIN; SEASONALITY;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; EOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; WINTER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEASONALITY;

FRANCE; PARIS BASIN;

EID: 0030441475     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1067:WASTOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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