Obliquity forcing with 8-12 times preindustrial levels of atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician glaciation

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 485-488

  Herrmann, Achim D ^a   Patzkowsky, Mark E ^a   Pollard, David ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate model; Glaciation; Ice sheet model; Late Ordovician; Obliquity

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL FORCING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYSTERESIS; ICE;

LITHOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIATION; OBLIQUITY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0038269957     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0485:OFWTPL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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