Obliquity and long eccentricity pacing of the Middle Miocene climate transition

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1740-1755

  Tian, Jun ^a   Yang, Mei ^a   Lyle, Mitchell W ^b   Wilkens, Roy ^c   Shackford, Julia K ^b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

global ice volume; Middle Miocene; ocean carbon reservoir; phase shift

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PHASE SHIFT;

CARBON RESERVOIRS; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON ISOTOPE; ECCENTRICITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; OBLIQUITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84880782170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20108     Document Type: Article

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