Warm, equable mid-Cretaceous: Stable isotope evidence

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 121-142

  Fassell, Michelle L ^a,b   Bralower, Timothy J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER DRILLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; DEEP SEA DRILLING; MEAN SEA SURFACES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOTEMPERATURES; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; STABLE ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS;

ISOTOPES;

CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NANOFOSSIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70349485353     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.121     Document Type: Article

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