'Warm' palaeotemperatures from high Late Jurassic palaeolatitudes (Falkland Plateau): Ecological, environmental or diagenetic controls?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 315-327

  Price, G D ^a   Sellwood, B W ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belemnites; Falkland Plateau; Inoceramid bivalves; Isotopes; Late Jurassic; Palaeotemperatures

Indexed keywords

BELEMNITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC, FALKLAND PLATEAU;

EID: 0030620968     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00058-2     Document Type: Article

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