No extreme bipolar glaciation during the main Eocene calcite compensation shift

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7156, 2007, Pages 908-911

  Edgar, Kirsty M ^a   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Sexton, Philip F ^a,c   Suganuma, Yusuke ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON;

CALCITE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; EOCENE; GLACIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34548176040     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06053     Document Type: Article

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