Tropical Atlantic seasonal dynamics in the Early Middle Eocene from stable oxygen and carbon isotope profiles of mollusk shells

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-192

  Andreasson, Fredrik P ^a   Schmitz, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; MACOMA; TURRITELLA;

CARBON ISOTOPE; EOCENE; MOLLUSCE SHELL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031658553     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA00120     Document Type: Article

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