How cold were the Early Permian glacial tropics? Testing sea-surface temperature using the oxygen isotope composition of rigorously screened brachiopod shells

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 933-945

  Angiolini, Lucia ^a   Jadoul, Flavio ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b,c   Stephenson, Michael H ^b   Rushton, Jeremy ^b   Chenery, Simon ^b   Crippa, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; DIAGENESIS; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ICE CAP; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PERMIAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; KARAKORAM; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 69949092115     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-096R     Document Type: Article

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