Ordovician metre-scale cycles: Implications for climate and eustatic fluctuations in the central Appalachians during a global greenhouse, non-glacial to glacial transition

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 27-42

  Pope, Mike ^a   Read, J Fred ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Cyclic processes; Eustasy; Palaeoclimate; Peritidal; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

EUSTASY; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOCLIMATE; TECTONICS;

USA, APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0032055731     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00130-2     Document Type: Article

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