Vegetation and Organic-Walled Phytoplankton at the End of the Antarctic Greenhouse World: Latest Eocene Cooling Events

Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 193-210

  Warny, Sophie ^a   Askin, Rosemary ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Eocene; Oligocene; Palynology; SHALDRIL

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DROPS; PHYTOPLANKTON; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; SHALDRIL;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 84886834634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2010SP000965     Document Type: Chapter

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