Abrupt deep-sea warming at the end of the Cretaceous

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 995-998

  Li, Liangquan ^a   Keller, Gerta ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FLUCTUATING TEMPERATURES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; POLEWARD HEAT TRANSPORT; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

DEEPWATER DRILLING;

CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

(SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874964752     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0995:ADSWAT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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