Mammalian responses to climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Polecat Bench record in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 463-478

  Gingerich, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GEOMAGNETISM; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BIGHORN BASINS; CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; GENERIC COMPOSITION; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIME SCALE; GREENHOUSE WARMING; HIGH RESOLUTION; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BADLANDS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84871459062     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.463     Document Type: Article

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