Ground-truthing Late Ordovician climate models using the paleobiogeography of graptolites

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Vandenbroucke, Thijs R A ^a,b   Armstrong, Howard A ^c   Williams, Mark ^b,d   Zalasiewicz, Jan A ^b   Sabbe, Koen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONODONT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWINSPAN; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 77952352811     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001720     Document Type: Article

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