From the warm Pliocene to the cold Pleistocene: A tale of two oceans

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 959-960

  Filippelli, Gabriel M ^a   Flores, José Abel ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

EID: 70350417617     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus102009.1     Document Type: Article

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