Southern high latitude climate variability in the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 351-364

  Gallagher, Stephen J ^a   Wagstaff, Barbara E ^a   Baird, Jennifer G ^a   Wallace, Malcolm W ^a   Li, Chung Leong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Campanian; Climate; Greenhouse; Maastrichtian; Palynoflora

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DICOTYLEDON; DOMINANCE; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLATITUDE; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

NOTHOFAGIDITES; PODOCARPACEAE; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 38349176350     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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