Transient middle eocene atmospheric CO2 and temperature variations

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6005, 2010, Pages 819-821

  Bijl, Peter K ^a   Houben, Alexander J P ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Bohaty, Steven M ^c   Sluijs, Appy ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERTURBATION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 78149296323     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193654     Document Type: Article

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