Jiggling the tropical thermostat in the Cretaceous hothouse

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 299-302

  Norris, Richard D ^a   Bice, Karen L ^a   Magno, Elizabeth A ^a   Wilson, Paul A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Cretaceous; Planktonic foraminifera; Stable isotopes; Temperature

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMOSTATS;

SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GEOLOGY;

CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84874951555     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0299:JTTTIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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