A review of the Milankovitch climatic beat: Template for Plio-Pleistocene sea-level changes and sequence stratigraphy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 5-21

  Pillans, Brad ^a   Chappell, John ^a   Naish, Tim R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Milankovitch theory; Oxygen isotopes; Sea level change; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0344631571     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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