Quantification of deep-time orbital forcing by average spectral misfit

American Journal of Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 773-792

  Meyers, Stephen R ^a   Sageman, Bradley B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; LIMESTONE; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TURONIAN;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 35248876599     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/05.2007.01     Document Type: Article

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