Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7093, 2006, Pages 606-609

  Brinkhuis, Henk ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Collinson, Margaret E ^c   Sluijs, Appy ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b   Dickens, Gerald R ^d   Huber, Matthew ^e   Cronin, Thomas M ^f   Onodera, Jonaotaro ^g   Takahashi, Kozo ^g   Bujak, Jonathan P ^h   Stein, Ruediger ⁱ   Van Der Burgh, Johan ^a   Eldrett, James S ^j   Harding, Ian C ^k   Lotter, André F ^a   Sangiorgi, Francesca ^a,b   Cittert, Han Van Konijnenburg Van ^a,l   De Leeuw, Jan W ^a,b   Matthiessen, Jens ⁱ   Backman, Jan ^m   Moran, Kathryn ⁿ   Clemens, S ^o   Eynaud, F ^p   Gattacceca, J ^q   Jakobsson, M ^m   Jordan, R ^r   Kaminski, M ^s   King, J ⁿ   Koc, N ^t   Martinez, N C ^u   Mcinroy, D ^v   Moore Jr, T C ^w   O'Regan, M ⁿ   Palike H ^k   Rea, B ^x   Rio, D ^y   Sakamoto, T ^z   Smith, D C ⁿ   St John, K E K ^aa   Suto, I ^ab   Suzuki, N ^ac   Watanabe, M ^ad   Yamamoto, M ^ae   more..

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Bujak Research International   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j Shell UK Exploration and   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^l NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^m STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^o BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^q CEREGE   (France)

^r YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^u BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^y UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^z JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^aa JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^ac TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ad NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^ae HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS;

FREE-FLOATING FERN; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LITTLE FIELD EVIDENCE; PALAEOCLIMATE SIMULATIONS;

SURFACE WATERS;

SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE WATER;

EOCENE; EPISODIC EVENT; EVAPORATION; FERN; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE WATER;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARTICLE; EOCENE; FERN; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE; HEAT; HISTORY; HYDROLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES;

EID: 33745243680     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04692     Document Type: Article

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