Middle Eocene regional climate instability: Evidence from the western North Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1011-1014

  Wade, Bridget S ^a   Kroon, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blake Nose; Climate; Eocene; Oxygen isotopes; Planktonic foraminifera; Site 1052

Indexed keywords

SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEA LEVEL;

GEOLOGY;

EOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036861250     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<1011:MERCIE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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