Estimating the global thermal state from Cretaceous sea surface and continental temperature data

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 49-57

  Frakes, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

CRETACEOUS PERIOD; CRETACEOUS TEMPERATURES; EARLY CRETACEOUS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

SURFACE WATERS;

ALBIAN; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CENOMANIAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE; TURONIAN;

EID: 84870919830     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.49     Document Type: Article

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