Climate threshold at the Eocene-Oligocene transition: Antarctic ice sheet influence on ocean circulation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 452, Issue , 2009, Pages 169-178

  Miller, Kenneth G ^a   Wright, James D ^a   Katz, Miriam E ^b   Wade, Bridget S ^c   Browning, James V ^a   Cramer, Benjamin S ^a   Rosenthal, Yair ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Eocene; Oligocene; Oxygen isotopes; Sea level

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; ANTARCTICA; CALCITE COMPENSATION; EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

ICE;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OLIGOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; UPWELLING;

ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 74949097356     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2452(11)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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