Isotopic evidence for temperature variation during the early Cretaceous (late Ryazanian-mid-Hauterivian)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 335-343

  Price, Gregory D ^a   Ruffell, Alastair H ^b   Jones, Charles E ^c,e   Kalin, Robert M ^b   Mutterlose, Jörg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Belemnites; Early Cretaceous; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes; Yorkshire

Indexed keywords

BELEMNITE; CRETACEOUS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034066371     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.2.335     Document Type: Article

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