Terrestrial cooling in Northern Europe during the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7562-7567

  Hren, Michael T ^a   Sheldon, Nathan D ^b   Grimes, Stephen T ^c   Collinson, Margaret E ^d   Hooker, Jerry J ^e   Bugler, Melanie ^c   Lohmann, Kyger C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clumped isotopes; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; SURFACE WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COOLING; EOCENE; EUROPE; GASTROPOD; GREENHOUSE; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIVIPARUS LENTUS;

CLUMPED ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; FOSSILS; GASTROPODA; GEOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; ICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84877339277     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210930110     Document Type: Article

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