Recovering the true size of an Eocene hyperthermal from the marine sedimentary record

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 700-712

  Kirtland Turner, Sandra ^a,b   Ridgwell, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bioturbation; carbon isotope excursions; Earth system modeling; hyperthermals

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

EID: 84889562812     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002541     Document Type: Article

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