Response of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Upper Ordovician glaciation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 227-236

  Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Baldini, James ^a   Challands, Tom J ^a   Gröcke, Darren R ^a   Owen, Alan W ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Palaeozoic Ice Age; Inter tropical Convergence Zone; Mass extinction; Monsoon; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBONATE ROCK; CLIMATE MODELING; FAUNA; GLACIATION; HIRNANTIAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANTARCTICA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 70549096072     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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