Middle Eocene-late Oligocene climate variability: Calcareous nannofossil response at Kerguelen Plateau, Site 748

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-192

  Villa, G ^a   Fioroni, C ^b   Pea, L ^a   Bohaty, S ^c   Persico, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eocene; Nannofossils; Oligocene; Paleoclimatology; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATEAU; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 53249100301     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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