Astronomical pacing of late Palaeocene to early Eocene global warming events

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages 1083-1087

  Lourens, Lucas J ^a   Sluijs, Appy ^a   Kroon, Dick ^b   Zachos, James C ^c   Thomas, Ellen ^d,e   Röhl, Ursula ^f   Bowles, Julie ^g   Raffi, Isabella ^h  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; VOLCANOES;

CARBON ISOTOPES; COMETS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; OCEAN BASIS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; CLATHRIC ACID; CLATHRIN; METHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGENE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLAY; ELMO HORIZON; EOCENE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORBITAL TUNING; PALAEOCENE EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EID: 21344435540     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03814     Document Type: Article

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