Near-tropical early eocene terrestrial temperatures at the Australo-Antarctic margin, western Tasmania

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-270

  Carpenter, Raymond J ^a   Jordan, Gregory J ^b   Macphail, Mike K ^c   Hill, Robert S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; HIGH LATITUDES; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA; WARM CLIMATES;

SEA LEVEL;

ESTIMATION;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EOCENE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WARMING;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); TASMANIA;

EID: 84858140695     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32584.1     Document Type: Article

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