Sea surface temperature record of a Late Cretaceous tropical Southern Tethys upwelling system

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 392, Issue , 2013, Pages 350-358

  Alsenz, Heiko ^a   Regnery, Julia ^a,e   Ashckenazi Polivoda, Sarit ^b,f   Meilijson, Aaron ^b   Ron Yankovich, Libby ^b   Abramovich, Sigal ^b   Illner, Peter ^c   Almogi Labin, Ahuva ^d   Feinstein, Shimon ^b   Berner, Zsolt ^c   Püttmann, Wilhelm ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^e Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^f The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Late Cretaceous upwelling system; Late Santonian cooling; Sea surface temperature; Southern Tethys; TEX86

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRETACEOUS; MAASTRICHTIAN; OIL SHALE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SANTONIAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TETHYS; UPWELLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84886770447     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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