Persistent near–tropical warmth on the antarctic continent during the early eocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7409, 2012, Pages 73-77

  Pross, Jörg ^a,b   Contreras, Lineth ^a   Bijl, Peter K ^c   Greenwood, David R ^d   Bohaty, Steven M ^e   Schouten, Stefan ^f   Bendle, James A ^g   Röhl, Ursula ^h   Tauxe, Lisa ⁱ   Raine, J Ian ^j   Huck, Claire E ^k   Van De Flierdt, Tina ^k   Jamieson, Stewart S R ^l   Stickley, Catherine E ^m   Van De Schootbrugge, Bas ^a   Escutia, Carlota ⁿ   Brinkhuis, Henk ^c   Escutia Dotti, Carlota ⁿ   Klaus, Adam ^o   Fehr, Annick ^p   Williams, Trevor ^q   Bendle, James A P ^g   Carr, Stephanie A ^r   Dunbar, Robert B ^s   Gonzèlez, Jhon J ⁿ   Hayden, Travis G ^t   Iwai, Masao ^u   Jimenez Espejo, Francisco J ^n,v,ai   Katsuki, Kota ^u   Soo Kong, Gee ^w   Mc Kay, Robert M ^x   Nakai, Mutsumi ^y   Olney, Matthew P ^z   Passchier, Sandra ^aa   Pekar, Stephen F ^ab   Riesselman, Christina R ^n,s,v,ai   Sakai, Toyosaburo ^ac   Shrivastava, Prakash K ^ad   Sugisaki, Saiko ^n,v,ae,ai   Tuo, Shouting ^af   Welsh, Kevin ^ag   Yamane, Masako ^ah   more..

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^k IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

ⁿ INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^o TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^r Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^s STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^v JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^w Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^x VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^y DAITO BUNKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^z UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^aa MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^ac UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ad GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^ae GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^af TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^ai U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LIPID;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLEN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; BOMBACOIDEAE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EOCENE; FLORA; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE; PALM; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; SPORE GERMINATION; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LIPIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SPORES; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MONOCOTYLEDON; PALEOLATITUDE; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WILKES LAND;

BOMBACOIDEAE;

EID: 84863501128     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11300     Document Type: Article

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