North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7028, 2005, Pages 821-825

  Haug, Gerald H ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^b   Sigman, Daniel M ^c   Rosell Mele, Antoni ^d   Swann, George E A ^e   Tiedemann, Ralf ^f   Jaccard, Samuel L ^g   Bollmann, Jörg ^g   Maslin, Mark A ^e   Leng, Melanie J ^h   Eglinton, Geoffrey ⁱ  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VAPORS;

CENOZOIC COOLING; GLACIATION; MILANKOVITCH'S ORBITAL THEORY; PACIFIC OCEAN;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

SNOW; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

GLACIATION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; WARMING;

CENOZOIC; COOLING; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THEORY; WATER VAPOR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD CLIMATE; DIATOM; HISTORY; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD CLIMATE; DIATOMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14544280177     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03332     Document Type: Review

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