Evidence for El Niño - Like conditions during the Pliocene

GSA Today

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 4-11

  Ravelo, Ana Christina ^a   Dekens, Petra Simonne ^a   McCarthy, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

EID: 33644791808     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: 10525173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2006)016<4:EFENLC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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