Oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of the Miocene limestone of Kerala and its implications to palaeoclimate and its depositional setting

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1155-1159

  Narayanan, V ^a   Anirudhan, S ^a   Grottoli, Andrea G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depositional setting; Oxygen and carbon isotopes; Palaeotemperature; Quilon limestone

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148941340     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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