Neogene aridification of the northern hemisphere

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 823-826

  Eronen, Jussi T ^a,b   Fortelius, M ^a,c   Micheels, A ^b,d   Portmann, F T ^b,d   Puolamaki K ^e   Janis, Christine M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CROWN HEIGHT; EURASIA; NEO GENES; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MAMMALS;

ARIDIFICATION; HABITAT; MAMMAL; NEOGENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866265756     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33147.1     Document Type: Article

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