Late Paleozoic tropical climate response to Gondwanan deglaciation

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 771-774

  Poulsen, Christopher J ^a   Pollard, David ^b   Montañez, Isabel P ^c   Rowley, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; General circulation model; Ice age; Paleoclimate; Permian

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; TROPICAL CLIMATE RESPONSE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GONDWANA; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 34548807096     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23841A.1     Document Type: Article

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