An astronomical tuning strategy for Pliocene sections: Implications for global-scale correlation and phase relationships

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1949-1973

  Clemens, Steven C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical tuning; Insolation forcing; Milankovitch cyclicity; Non stationary phase response; Pliocene time scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968475     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0409     Document Type: Article

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