Mid-Pliocene climate change amplified by a switch in Indonesian subsurface throughflow

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 434-438

  Karas, Cyrus ^a   Nürnberg, Dirk ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^b   Tiedemann, Ralf ^c   Mohan, Kuppusamy ^b   Bickert, Torsten ^d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 67449131811     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo520     Document Type: Article

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