Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present

Lethaia

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-254

  Ziegler, Alfred M ^a   Eshel, Gidon ^a   McAllister Rees, P ^a   Rothfus, Thomas A ^a   Rowley, David B ^a   Sunderlin, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Mesozoic; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeogeography; Permian; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CARBONATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; REEF; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 0242317823     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160310004657     Document Type: Article

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