Productivity feedback did not terminate the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-272

  Torfstein, A ^a   Winckler, G ^a,b   Tripati, A ^c,d  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b University of Cambridge ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPSITHERMAL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; SILICATE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84860389720     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-265-2010     Document Type: Article

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