Precessional and half-precessional climate forcing of Mid-Devonian monsoon-like dynamics

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 337-351

  De Vleeschouwer, D ^a   Da Silva, A C ^b   Boulvain, F ^b   Crucifix, M ^c   Claeys, P ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVONIAN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MINERAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; TIME SERIES;

BELGIUM; DINANT; NAMUR [BELGIUM];

EID: 84858830684     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-337-2012     Document Type: Article

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