Impacts of Cenozoic global cooling, surface uplift, and an inland seaway on South American paleoclimate and precipitation δ18O

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 335-351

  Louise Jeffery, M ^a   Poulsen, Christopher J ^a   Ehlers, Todd A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CENOZOIC; CENTRAL ANDES; GEOGRAPHICAL GRADIENTS; GLOBAL COOLING; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAPSE RATE; MIOCENE; OROGENS; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOELEVATION; PRECIPITATION RATES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTH AMERICA; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CENOZOIC; EOCENE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84863515056     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30480.1     Document Type: Article

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