Quantification of a greenhouse hydrologic cycle from equatorial to polar latitudes: The mid-Cretaceous water bearer revisited

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 307, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 301-312

  Suarez, Marina B ^a   González, Luis A ^a   Ludvigson, Gregory A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoclimate; Pedogenic carbonates

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATITUDE; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOGENESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER VAPOR;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960432140     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

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