Tropical seaways played a more important role than high latitude seaways in Cenozoic cooling

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 801-813

  Zhang, Z ^a,b   Nisancioglu, K H ^a   Flatoy F ^a   Bentsen, M ^a   Bethke, I ^a   Wang, H ^b  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; LATITUDE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

DRAKE PASSAGE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN LOWLAND;

EID: 79960879906     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-801-2011     Document Type: Article

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