Export productivity and carbonate accumulation in the Pacific Basin at the transition from a greenhouse to icehouse climate (late Eocene to early Oligocene)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Griffith, Elizabeth ^a,b   Calhoun, Michael ^a   Thomas, Ellen ^c   Averyt, Kristen ^a,d   Erhardt, Andrea ^a   Bralower, Timothy ^e   Lyle, Mitch ^f   Olivarez Lyle, Annette ^f   Paytan, Adina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BARITE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DEEP SEA; DRAWDOWN; EOCENE; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GLACIATION; OLIGOCENE; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEAFLOOR; SURFACE WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956426622     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001932     Document Type: Article

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