Evidence for rapid climate changes in North America during the latest Paleocene thermal maximum: oxygen isotope compositions of biogenic phosphate from the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 193-208

  Fricke, Henry C ^a   Clyde, William C ^b   O'Neil, James R ^c   Gingerich, Philip D ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHATE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES, WYOMING, BIGHORN BASIN;

EID: 0031726847     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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