Carbon cycling and chronology of climate warming during the Palaeocene/Eocene transition

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6755, 1999, Pages 775-778

  Norris, Richard D ^a   Röhl, Ursula ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCENE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CLIMATE; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0039773937     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44545     Document Type: Article

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