A climate-driven model and development of a floating point time scale for the entire Middle Devonian Givetian Stage: A test using magnetostratigraphy susceptibility as a climate proxy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 85-95

  Ellwood, Brooks B ^a   Tomkin, Jonathan H ^b   El Hassani, Ahmed ^c   Bultynck, Pierre ^d   Brett, Carlton E ^e   Schindler, Eberhard ^f   Feist, Raimund ^g   Bartholomew, Alexander J ^h  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate cyclicity; Floating Point Time Scale; Givetian; Global bio events; Magnetic susceptibility; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELING; CONODONT; DATA SET; DEVONIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; ZONATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954746842     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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