Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6855, 2001, Pages 481-487

  Pearson, Paul N ^a   Ditchfield, Peter W ^a   Singano, Joyce ^b   Harcourt Brown, Katherine G ^a   Nicholas, Christopher J ^c   Olsson, Richard K ^d   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^e   Hall, Mike A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation   (Tanzania)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEDIMENTS;

FOSSIL ORGANISMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON 13; OXYGEN 18; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEATING; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOMETRY; TROPICS; WARMING;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANKTON; PROTOZOA; TIME; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0035807268     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35097000     Document Type: Review

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