Triassic climates - State of the art and perspectives

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 290, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Preto, Nereo ^a,b   Kustatscher, Evelyn ^c   Wignall, Paul B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Naturmuseum Südtirol ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; End Permian extinction; End Triassic extinction; Monsoon; Pangaea; Triassic

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBONATE; CARNIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MASS EXTINCTION; METAZOAN; MONSOON; NORIAN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; REEF FORMATION; TETHYS;

METAZOA;

EID: 77951105184     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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