Dynamic polar climates in a greenhouse world: Evidence from clumped isotope thermometry of early cretaceous belemnites

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 923-926

  Price, Gregory D ^a   Passey, Benjamin H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUMPED ISOTOPES; EARLY CRETACEOUS; ICE GROWTH; MARINE TEMPERATURES; POLAR ICE; POLAR REGIONS; SUB-ARCTIC; WATER TEMPERATURES;

GREENHOUSES; ISOTOPES; SEAWATER; THERMOMETERS;

ICE;

BELEMNITE; CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SUBARCTIC REGION;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84889000628     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34484.1     Document Type: Article

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