Climatic oscillations at the onset of the mesozoic inferred from palynological records from the north Indian margin

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-237

  Hermann, Elke ^a   Hochuli, Peter A ^a,b   Bucher, Hugo ^a,b   Brühwiler, Thomas ^a   Hautmann, Michael ^a   Ware, David ^a   Weissert, Helmut ^b   Roohi, Ghazala ^c   Yaseen, Aamir ^c   Khalil Ur Rehman, ^c  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; ECCENTRICITY CYCLE; END-PERMIAN; GAS CONCENTRATION; HUMIDITY CHANGE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MASS EXTINCTION; MESOZOIC; MIDLATITUDES; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; ORBITAL FORCING; PAKISTAN; TRIASSIC;

ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MASS EXTINCTION; MESOZOIC; MONSOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

CHINA; PAKISTAN; XIZANG;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 84855808834     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-130     Document Type: Article

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