Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of drake passage

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5772, 2006, Pages 428-430

  Scher, Howie D ^a,b   Martin, Ellen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SEAWATER;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CLIMATE REVERSALS; DRAKE PASSAGE; EOCENE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPE; NEODYMIUM; SEA WATER;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COOLING; EOCENE; OCEAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGULHAS RIDGE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIAN GATEWAY;

EID: 33645970692     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120044     Document Type: Article

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