Constraints on glaciation in the middle Eocene (46-37 Ma) from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1209 in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Dawber, Caroline F ^a   Tripati, Aradhna K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COOLING; EOCENE; EPISODIC EVENT; GLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; OPEN OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; VOLUME;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79955639179     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002037     Document Type: Article

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