Terrestrial evidence for two greenhouse events in the latest Cretaceous

GSA Today

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 4-9

  Nordt, Lee ^a   Atchley, Stacy ^a   Dworkin, Steve ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 1642422778     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2003)013<4:TEFTGE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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