Gigantic volcanic eruptions and climatic change in the early Eocene

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1065-1070

  Egger, Hans ^a   Brückl, Ewald ^b  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Climatic change; Early eocene; Northern atlantic; Volcanic eruptions

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SOLAR RADIATION; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33751088521     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0085-7     Document Type: Article

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