Environmental change in the subtropics during the late middle Eocene greenhouse and global implications

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Okafor, Chioma U ^a   Thomas, Deborah J ^a   Wade, Bridget S ^a   Firth, John ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Middle eocene; Ocean drilling program; Paleoceanograpy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449693116     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002450     Document Type: Article

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