Low-latitude seasonality of Cretaceous temperatures in warm and cold episodes

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7063, 2005, Pages 1341-1344

  Steuber, Thomas ^a   Rauch, Markus ^a   Masse, Jean Pierre ^b   Graaf, Joris ^c   Malkoč, Matthias ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

COOLER EPISODES; CRETACEOUS TEMPERATURES; LOW-LATTITUDE SEASONALITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CRETACEOUS; PALEOCLIMATE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; BIVALVE; COLD; CRETACEOUS; HEAT; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; POLAR ICE CAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE;

BIVALVIA; FORAMINIFERA; HERE (GASTROPOD); HIPPURITOIDEA;

EID: 27644562254     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04096     Document Type: Article

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