Quantitative palaeoclimate GCM validation: Late Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous case studies

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 769-772

  Price, Gregory D ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^b   Sellwood, Bruce W ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bauxite; Coal; Cretaceous; Jurassic; Palaeoclimatology

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; COAL; CRETACEOUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JURASSIC; PALAEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0031460991     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.154.5.0769     Document Type: Article

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