Global cooling during the eocene-oligocene climate transition

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5918, 2009, Pages 1187-1190

  Liu, Zhonghui ^a,b   Pagani, Mark ^a   Zinniker, David ^a   DeConto, Robert ^c   Huber, Matthew ^d   Brinkhuis, Henk ^e   Shah, Sunita R ^f   Leckie, R Mark ^c   Pearson, Ann ^f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR REGION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; EOCENE; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; LATITUDE; OLIGOCENE; POLAR ICE CAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 61349156757     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166368     Document Type: Article

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