Petrography and carbonate isotope stratigraphy from MIS AND-1B core, Antarctica: Evidence of the early Pliocene warming event

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 22-32

  Scopelliti, G ^a   Bellanca, A ^a   Neri, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Antarctica; Early Pliocene; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ANDRILL; ANTARCTICA; EARLY PLIOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATE MINERALS; ISOTOPES; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATION;

AUTHIGENIC MINERAL; CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DIATOMITE; DRILLING; GLOBAL WARMING; INSOLATION; IRON; LATITUDE; MAGNESIUM; MELTING; MINERALOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; POLAR REGION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 79952317428     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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