Fossil proxies of near-shore sea surface temperatures and seasonality from the late Neogene Antarctic shelf

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 699-722

  Clark, Nicola A ^a   Williams, Mark ^a   Hill, Daniel J ^b,c   Quilty, Patrick G ^d   Smellie, John L ^a   Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^a,c   Ellis, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate models; Palaeoclimate; Pliocene; Proxy

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEOGENE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SIMULATION;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; SEA; SEASON; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PRYDZ BAY; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; CETACEA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84880743451     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1075-9     Document Type: Article

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