Extremely high sea-surface temperatures at low latitudes during the middle Cretaceous as revealed by archaeal membrane lipids

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1069-1072

  Schouten, Stefan ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Forster, Astrid ^a   van Breugel, Yvonne ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Sea surface temperature; TEX86; Tropics

Indexed keywords

POLAR ICE CAPS; CRETACEOUS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; MARINE ORGANISMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSES; ICE; LIPIDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; REPAIR; SEAWATER EFFECTS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRETACEOUS; LIPID; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PICOPLANKTON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ALBIAN; CIRCULATION; FORAMINIFERA; OVERPRINTING; PALEOECOLOGY; PH; SEAWATER; TURONIAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 1642562902     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19876.1     Document Type: Article

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