Modeling evidences for global warming, Arctic seawater freshening, and sluggish oceanic circulation during the Early Toarcian anoxic event

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dera, Guillaume ^a   Donnadieu, Yannick ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DEEP SEA; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER; TETHYS; TOARCIAN; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84862559768     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002283     Document Type: Review

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