Detecting common-cause relationships with directional information transfer

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-29

  Hannisdal, Bjarte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOSSIL RECORD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHANEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84055217509     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP358.3     Document Type: Article

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