Early Pliocene climate: A perspective from the western equatorial Atlantic warm pool

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 459-470

  Billups, Katharina ^a,b   Ravelo, A C ^a   Zachos, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(Equatorial West); Atlantic Ocean; Climate change; Globigerinoides sacculifer; Neogloboquadrina dutertrei; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimate; Planktonic foraminifera; Pliocene; Stratigraphy; Warm pool

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; WARM POOL;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI; ZANCLEA;

EID: 0032450734     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA02262     Document Type: Article

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