Evidence from Svalbard for near-freezing temperatures and climate oscillations in the Arctic during the Paleocene and Eocene

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 278, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 48-56

  Spielhagen, Robert F ^a   Tripati, Aradhna ^b  

^a Saxonian Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate; Glendonite; Sediments; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COLD WATER; COOLING; EOCENE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FREEZING; PALEOCENE; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERTIARY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 67349221731     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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