The late Paleozoic ice age: An evolving paradigm

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 629-656

  Montañez, Isabel P ^a   Poulsen, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 climate forcing; Glacial state; Glacioeustasy; Greenhouse; Icehouse; Pennsylvanian; Permian

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCINGS; GLACIAL STATE; GLACIOEUSTASY; ICEHOUSE; PENNSYLVANIANS; PERMIAN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSES; ICE; STRATIGRAPHY; WAREHOUSES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GONDWANA; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PERMIAN;

EID: 84878744193     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100118     Document Type: Review

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