Low-18O terranes tracking Mesozoic polar climates in the South Pacific

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 569-576

  Blattner, P ^a   Grindley, G W ^a   Adams, C J ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOZOIC; OXYGEN; PALAEOCLIMATE; POLAR REGION;

PACIFIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0030841970     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(96)00350-X     Document Type: Article

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