Tethyan oceanic currents and climate gradients 300 m.y. ago

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1071-1074

  Angiolini, Lucia ^a   Gaetani, Maurizio ^a   Muttoni, Giovanni ^a,b   Stephenson, Michael H ^c   Zanchi, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ALP Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism   (Italy)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biotic distribution; Carboniferous Permian; Gondwanan glaciation; Paleocurrents; Paleogeography; Pangea B configuration

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS-PERMIAN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION PATTERN; PALEOCURRENTS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOTA; CARBONIFEROUS; CLIMATOLOGY; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOCURRENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN; TETHYS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 37449029502     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24031A.1     Document Type: Article

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