Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-66

  Zachos, James C ^a   Kump, Lee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic glaciation; Carbon cycle; Oligocene

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLACIATION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 20344408076     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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