Linking the Wasatchian/Bridgerian boundary to the cenozoic global climate optimum: New magnetostratigraphic and isotopic results from South Pass, Wyoming

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 175-199

  Clyde, W C ^a   Sheldon, N D ^b   Koch, P L ^c   Gunnell, G F ^d   Bartels, W S ^e  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Eocene; Green River Basin; Magnetostratigraphy; Mammalia; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; EOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE;

UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035282621     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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