The Palaeocene "top chron C27n" transient greenhouse episode: Evidence from marine pelagic Atlantic and peri-Tethyan sections

Terra Nova

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 477-486

  Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^a   Pujalte, Victoriano ^b   Stoykova, Kristalina ^c   Baceta, Juan I ^b   Ivanov, Marin ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TETHYS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASQUE COUNTRY; BULGARIA; BYALA; GREENLAND; GUIPUZCOA; SPAIN; ZUMAIA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84868686408     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01086.x     Document Type: Article

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