Evidence fora change in Milankovitch forcing caused by extraterrestrial events at Massignano, Italy, Eocene-Oligocene boundary GSSP

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 452, Issue , 2009, Pages 119-137

  Brown, Rachel E ^a,e   Koeberl, Christian ^b   Montanari, Alessandro ^c   Bice, David M ^d  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco   (Italy)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eocene Oligocene boundary; Impacts; Milankovitch theory; Spectral analysis; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; LIME; LIMESTONE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORBITS; PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

EOCENE/OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; IMPACTS; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; MILANKOVITCH FORCING; MILANKOVITCH THEORY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASTEROID; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMET; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; IMPACT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ASH;

EID: 74949101843     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2452(08)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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