Significant Southern Ocean warming event in the late middle Eocene

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1017-1020

  Bohaty, Steven M ^a   Zachos, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Eocene; Kerguelen Plateau; Maud Rise; Ocean Drilling Program; Southern Ocean; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

DECARBONATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; METHANE; SURFACE WATERS; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; WARMING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0346847651     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19800.1     Document Type: Article

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