Foraminiferal faunal estimates of paleotemperature: Circumventing the no-analog problem yields cool ice age tropics

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 350-359

  Mix, Alan C ^a   Morey, Ann E ^a   Pisias, Nicklas G ^a   Hostetler, Steven W ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032859046     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900012     Document Type: Article

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