Latitudinal temperature gradient during the Cretaceous Upper Campanian-Middle Maastrichtian: δ18O record of continental vertebrates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 255-272

  Amiot, Romain ^a   Lécuyer, Christophe ^a   Buffetaut, Eric ^b   Fluteau, Frédéric ^c   Legendre, Serge ^a   Martineau, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Apatite; Continental climate; Late Cretaceous; Oxygen isotopes; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; CRETACEOUS; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 4644327284     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.07.015     Document Type: Article

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