New quantitative palaeoclimate data for the Late Cretaceous Arctic: Evidence for a warm polar ocean

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 227-251

  Herman, Alexei B ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; CLAMP; climate; Cretaceous; palaeobotany

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; PALAEOBOTANY; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, NOVAYA SIBIR; USA, ALASKA;

EID: 0030620748     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00080-6     Document Type: Article

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