Middle to late Miocene stepwise climate cooling: Evidence from a high-resolution deep water isotope curve spanning 8 million years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 688-699

  Holbourn, Ann ^a   Kuhnt, Wolfgang ^a   Clemens, Steven ^b   Prell, Warren ^b   Andersen, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

astronomical forcing; benthic stable isotopes; global climate cooling; middle to late Miocene; Miocene climatic optimum; Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BENTHOS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FORCING; COOLING; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; INSOLATION; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84888994193     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002538     Document Type: Article

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