The climate of the Late Cretaceous: New insights from the application of the carbonate clumped isotope thermometer to Western Interior Seaway macrofossil

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-65

  Dennis, K J ^a   Cochran, J K ^b   Landman, N H ^c   Schrag, D P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry; Disequilibrium precipitation; Late Cretaceous; Oxygen isotopes; Paleotemperature; Western Interior Seaway

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL OCEAN; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE EFFECT; ISOTOPE EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC INDEPENDENCE; LATE CRETACEOUS; MACROFOSSILS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ORGANISMS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOTEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMOMETERS;

ISOTOPES;

AMMONITE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOINDICATOR; CARBONATE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CRETACEOUS; FISH; FOSSIL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

WESTERN INTERIOR;

AMMONOIDEA; BACULITES; BELEMNOIDEA; BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA; GASTROPODA; HOPLOSCAPHITES; NAUTILUS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 84871398692     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.036     Document Type: Article

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