Astronomical calibration of Oligocene-Miocene time

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1907-1929

  Shackleton, N J ^a   Crowhurst, S J ^a   Weedon, G P ^b   Laskar, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Bureau des Longitudes   (France)

Author keywords

Eccentricity, 400 000 year cycle; Milankovitch time scale calibration; Miocene time scale; Obliquity, amplitude modulation of; Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 154; Oligocene time scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347599326     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0407     Document Type: Article

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