Polar front shift and atmospheric CO2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 14983-14986

  Vandenbroucke, Thijs R A ^a,b,c   Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Williams, Mark ^d,e   Paris, Florentin ^f   Zalasiewicz, Jan A ^d   Sabbe, Koen ^b   Nõlvak, Jaak ^g   Challands, Thomas J ^a,h   Verniers, Jacques ^b   Servais, Thomas ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^h TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Chitinozoans; Climate belts; Hirnantian glaciations; Ordovician; Zooplankton biotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; HIRNANTIAN; INTERGLACIAL; NONHUMAN; PALEOZOIC; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER ORDOVICIAN; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY; ICE COVER; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE;

CHITINOZOA;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 77957003590     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003220107     Document Type: Article

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