Linked sequence development and global climate change: The Upper Mississippian record in the Appalachian basin

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-38

  Miller, Daniel J ^a,b   Eriksson, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HUMID CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; INTERGLACIAL CYCLICITY; SEMIARID CLIMATIC CONDITION; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL; EUSTACY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879880633     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0035:LSDAGC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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