Present status of the astronomical (polarity) time-scale for the Mediterranean Late Neogene

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1931-1947

  Hilgen, F J ^c   Abdul Aziz, H ^c   Krijgsman, W ^c   Langereis, C G ^c   Lourens, L J ^c   Meulenkamp, J E ^c   Raffi, I ^a   Steenbrink, J ^c   Turco, E ^c   Van Vugt, N ^c   Wijbrans, J R ^b   Zachariasse, W J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Astronomical time scale; Mediterranean; Neogene; Orbital forcing; Palaeoclimate; Sedimentary (Milankovitch) cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968477     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0408     Document Type: Article

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