Warm, not super-hot, temperatures in the early Eocene subtropics

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 771-774

  Keating Bitonti, Caitlin R ^a,c   Ivany, Linda C ^a   Affek, Hagit P ^b   Douglas, Peter ^b   Samson, Scott D ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE SHELLS; COASTAL PLAIN; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE DATA; LIPID ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOTEMPERATURE PROXY; PALEOTEMPERATURES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE;

EARTH (PLANET); ESTIMATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ISOTOPES;

CARBONATE; EOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SHELL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GULF COASTAL PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 79960612696     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32054.1     Document Type: Article

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