Late Oligocene warming event in the southern North Sea Basin: Benthic foraminifera as paleotemperature proxies

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-239

  De Man, Ellen ^a   Van Simaeys, S ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; Global warming; Oligocene; Paleotemperature; Rupelian Chattian boundary

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 11844291277     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600020291     Document Type: Article

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