High-resolution terrestrial record of orbital climate forcing in coal

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-306

  Large, D J ^a   Jones, T F ^a   Somerfield, C ^a   Gorringe, M C ^a   Spiro, B ^b   Macquaker, J H S ^c   Atkin, B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate; Coal; Paleocene

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL CLIMATE;

CALIBRATION; CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; COAL; OXIDATION;

GEOLOGY;

COAL; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038302828     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0303:HRTROO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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